Mr Jobe

Since you are quite happy to narrate rather than
analyse this chapter on Governance, I was expecting
you to mention the following incidents;

(1)The unlawful abduction and torture of Yusupha Cham,
Shingle Nyassi, Wassa Janneh and 5 others.

(2) The Government's to refusal to reinstate Civil/
Public Servants who contested for the opposition in
the parliamentary elections. eg Seedy Jadama UDP
Candidate for Illiasa.

(3) The decision of the IGP to deny UDP permission to
hold political rallies.

(4) The reluctance of the President to fill up the
post of Vice President.

(5) The failure of The Government to modify or repeal
all decrees where were in conflict with the 1997
Constitution

(6) The continued arrest and detention of UDP
supporters by NIA via the Notorious July 22 Movement.

Having failed to mention these in your last column,
makes me now believe that we will never get an honest
analysis from you.


Mr Jobe

99% of the "Lers" know all what happened after the
elections. What we certainly expected was an honest
report and not a narrative and selected version of
events. To be honest with you, I have run out of
patience with the way you are handling the debate. You
have tried to avoid the crucial issues. Why mention
the Citizen FM saga first? Why did you omit the case
of Yusupha Cham and many others. I believe the Yusupha
Cham situtation should have been the first item under
your subtitle- After the 1997 Election.

Having committted such a big blunder, I rest my case
that we will never get an honest response from you

Have a wonderful day

May God save us from intellectual dishonesty

Amen

Sanusi

-- Kebba Jobe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > c) AFTER
THE 1997 ELECTIONS.
>
> After the elections were over and Yahya declared the
> winner, Hamat Bah
> congratulated him at state house and Ousainou Darbo
> refused to acknowledge
> defeat, saying that the elections were neither free
> nor fair. He cited
> amongst other things, the monopolization of the
> public media, the use of
> civil servants such as the divisional commissioners
> and chiefs, the high
> level of harassment his supporters were subjected
> to, intimidation of voters
> etc, etc. The APRC accused the UDP of being bad
> losers and that people did
> not vote for them because they campaigned on tribal
> lines, insults, that
> they had no agenda for the development of the
> country, that their only
> agenda was to restore the corrupt regime of deposed
> Sir Dawda, that they
> wanted to destabilize the country etc, etc.
>
> These polarized supporters of both parties and the
> tension and enmity
> between them grew. The security forces, particularly
> the NIA, continued to
> harass the UDP, the police often unjustifiably
> refused them permits to hold
> their rallies. The UDP often defied these permit
> refusals by the police and
> this often resulted in fights between the rival
> militants of the two parties
> with the security forces often siding with the APRC
> militants. Lest I
> forget, these APRC militants were mostly members of
> the July 22nd movement
> who went about harassing people with impunity.
>
> The Security forces especially those stationed at
> Denton bridge really
> wrecked havoc on peoples’ lives. People were
> harassed over stupid ID cards
> on the pretext of screening people to see if there
> were any rebels from
> Sierra Leone, Liberia or Cassamance. This
> harassement continued until the
> former Interioer secretary of state, Major Bojang
> was kicked out of office.
> Explaining his dismissal, a government press release
> intimated that Bojang
> was harassing people unnecessarily to inflame
> peoples’ minds to compel them
> to riot. The July 22 nd movement was also banned.
>
> Meanwhile immigration officers kept continuous vigil
> at the offices of the
> Daily observer and its journalist, especially
> foreign ones were often
> deported on the slightest mistake on their part.
> Citizen Fm was raided and
> closed havibg been accused operating a radio station
> without a license. The
> proprietor, Baboucar Gaye, and his reporters were
> arrested, detained and
> finally taken to court. At the end of the trial, the
> proprietor was found
> guilty and the trial judge ordered the forfeiture of
> the station and all
> equipment to the state. Almost everyone expressed
> outrage over the heavy
> handedness of the judgement accusing the government
> of picking on Citizen Fm
> for political reasons, The government was accused of
> not liking Citizen Fm’s
> reading of newspaper articles in the local
> languages, as the local private
> papers did not feed the public with the one-sided
> and often boring stories
> of government’s activities. The fact that the
> independent media gave the
> other side of the story did not go down well with
> government.
>
> More to come later.
>
> Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
>
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