Femi Peters

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Ingram Reginald Femi Peters (* around 1946 in Bathurst ; † January 20, 2018 in Freetown ) was a Gambian politician and campaign leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), which he helped found.

Life

Banjul Central constituency
General election be right Voting share
1987 000000000000703.0000000000703 24.02%

Peters ran as a candidate for the Gambian People's Party (GPP) in the 1987 general election , but lost to opposing candidates Ebrima AB ("Presseh") N'Jie of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) and Kebba W. Foon of the United Party (UP).

Peters ran as a candidate for UDP in the local elections in Gambia in January 2008. He was defeated by Samba Faal , the candidate of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), who was elected mayor of Banjul.

Peters was arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Serekunda on October 25, 2009 and was sentenced to a year in prison and a fine on April 1, 2010. He was charged with "organizing a demonstration and using loudspeakers in public without official approval". The Amnesty International had called for the release of Peters', she as a political prisoner had classified. In the view of the ai, the trial of Peters, defended by Ousainou Darboe , was not a fair trial and relied largely on the testimony of four senior police officers as witnesses to the trial .

The 64-year-old Peters was prematurely released from custody in Mile 2 on December 10, 2010, without further explanation .

In mid-2017, Peters was sent to Sierra Leone as Gambian ambassador in the Adama Barrow government . He died in Freetown on January 20, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UDP Femi Peters In UK For An Official Engagement , accessed May 2011
  2. ↑ Discourse With Femi Peters, UDP's Campaign Manager The Independent, January 19, 2001
  3. ↑ Gambia News: Yankuba Colley, Samba Faal Elected KMC, Banjul Mayors. In: Gambianow.com. January 29, 2008, archived from the original on September 8, 2008 ; accessed on February 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d GAMBIA: FEMI PETERS IS FREE! Amnesty International (ai) of December 17, 2010
  5. ↑ Stop Press: Femi Peters Jailed For one Year !!!!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Freedomnewspaper.com dated April 1, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.freedomnewspaper.com  
  6. ↑ Gambia frees opposition leader Amnesty International (ai) of 16 December 2010
  7. ↑ GAMBIAN AMBASSADOR TO SIERRA LEONE FEMI PETERS DIES! - Freedom Newspaper . In: Freedom Newspaper . 2018 ( freedomnewspaper.com ).
  8. ^ Gambia: Tributes Pour In For UDP's Femi Peters . In: Jollofnews . 2018 ( jollofnews.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Femi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH around 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2018
Place of death Freetown