My friend Phoday Jarjussey, who has died aged 76, was a civil servant in the Gambia who fled to the UK after a military coup in the mid-1990s, after which he made a new life in London, where for many years he was a full-time Labour party councillor.
Phoday was born in Sukuta in the Gambia to Mba (nee Bojang), a farmer, and her husband, Saikouba Jarjussey, chief of the settlement of Jarra Soma, which Phoday always regarded as his home.
