Daily Observer MD Detained

The managing director of the Gambia Daily Observer Dida Halake was on Saturday June 14, 2008 arrested and detained at the kairaba police station.Haleke was until his arrest the managing director of the daily observer. A post he held for several months. He is since being replaced by former minister of Information Mrs. Neneh Mac Dull Gage.

At the time of going to press there was no clear information as to the reasons of arrest and detention. However some inside sources have it that Halake is being question about related financial mismanagement at the Daily Observer offices.

The new MD was a board chair before her appointment. She was also the designated Ambassador to the UN in New Yoke, a post she has never taken.Neneh is a seasoned broadcast journalists, who before her appointment to the earlier post of minister of information was deputy director Gambia radio and television services.

Neneh is the third MD of the Daily Observer under three years. The immediate former MD took over from Dr Sajar Taal less than a year ago.