{"id":22696,"date":"2022-10-07T18:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:35:13","slug":"govt-revokes-copgs-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t revokes CoPG\u2019s registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Alagie Manneh<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The pressure group, Coalition of Progressive Gambians, CoPG has been deregistered by the Registrar of Companies. The decision came little over a month before its much talked about planned protest slated for November 11. Disclosing this in a press release yesterday, CoPG said it has learned with dismay the revocation of the registration of its certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told that the action was necessitated due to an order from \u2018the top\u2019 which suggests an official pressure, likely from the executive branch of the government, the very people who have sworn to carry out their duties without fear or favor. And the reason they gave was that we are deregistered because we are a pressure group,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the group\u2019s president Seedy Cham, CoPG was legally registered as an association on the 28th day of September, 2022 at the AG Chambers, and this was achieved after the association fulfilled all the requirements for registration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe came into being in order to operate a functional office with the cardinal objective to raise awareness amongst Gambians and unite the people to fight against the \u201cdangerously pervasive corruption and tribal politics in the country. That would enable Gambians to make informed decisions about the direction of the country without resorting to violence, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion and political affiliation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>CoPG described the decision to revoke its registration as yet another clear manifestation of the arbitrary use of state powers, injustice and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, this should make every Gambian know that that dictatorship is back in The Gambia,\u201d the release signed by Seedy Cham, the president of CoPG, added.<\/p>\n<p>CoPG also added that the decision to revoke their registration made their faith in the government of The Gambia as the legitimate protector of constitutionality and the rule of law shaken from the core of its foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of this unjust use of state powers, we are hereby registering our total disappointment and condemnation of the Barrow administration over this blatant violation of our rights as bona fide citizens of The Gambia,\u201d the group said, adding they will not be intimidated from exercising their rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. By Alagie Manneh The pressure group, Coalition of Progressive Gambians, CoPG has been deregistered by the Registrar of Companies. The decision came little over a month before its much talked about planned protest slated for November 11. Disclosing this in a press release yesterday, CoPG said it has learned with dismay the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260,5732,5088],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia","tag-govt","tag-registration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov\u2019t revokes CoPG\u2019s registration - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Alagie Manneh The pressure group, Coalition of Progressive Gambians, CoPG has been deregistered by the Regist ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov\u2019t revokes CoPG\u2019s registration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Alagie Manneh The pressure group, Coalition of Progressive Gambians, CoPG has been deregistered by the Regist ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-07T18:54:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-07T19:35:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_23.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov\u2019t revokes CoPG\u2019s registration\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-07T18:54:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-07T19:35:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration\"},\"wordCount\":374,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_23.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\",\"Gov\u2019t\",\"REGISTRATION\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/govt-revokes-copgs-registration\",\"name\":\"Gov\u2019t revokes CoPG\u2019s registration - 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