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Gambia-L:
This was another old e-mail from my source. Again, it is stale, but I am
still sending it as received - unedited.
Ebrima
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Yahya's Meet the People's Tour a Flop
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:46:36 GMT
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>Ebrima,
>The reason why Yahya delayed his Meet the People's Tour to the point of
>even contemplating cancelling it, is now evident. At the start of the Tour
>on Monday, the number of people coming out to listen to his propaganda have
>been embarrassingly low. In Barra, less than 200 people showed up. In
>Sika, the turn out was equally dismal. Even among those supporters who
>bothered to turn up, they have all been complaining openly about the
>inefficient handling of the groundnut sector. Yahya is not only furious but
>down right antagonistic. by resorting to threaning to withold development
>projects in districts that do not support him. Ebrima, the man is
>desperate. There is no way that Yahya can win a second term in a free and
>fair election. Things have been going so badly for him and his APRC
>nonentities that word reaching me in Banjul is that he may just shorten his
>Tour well before the 15 days that he planned on touring the country. THE
>GAMBIAN PEOPLE HAVE TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THE BUTCHER OF KANILAI.
>Note: He is in Farafenni on his way to Georgetown where he is expected to
>night stop.
>
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