Mr. Colly, while it is highly commendable of you to defend yourself in
public against malicious attacks aimed at tarnishing your good reputation,
some of these nonsense, you simply have to ignore them and move on. This is
the second consecutive week that focus has been removed from Yaya and
instead reposed on irrelevant issues pertaining to the way you look on TV or
the words you use on G_L. I am again appealing to you to try and return
focus on the menace in our society. People can always nit-pick your postings
and find something offensive there to write about. There is very little you
can do about how certain people perceive you and the way they decide to
express their opinions of you and your choice of words. You pay undue
importance to those critics, you run the risk of getting your eyes off the
prize: Yaya.

Let them call you pompous, arrogant, whatnot. You are NOT embark on a
popularity contest on G_L. Granted, some attacks on your reputation
undermines the credibility of your accounts on G_L. By all means, defend
yourself against those attacks that tend to indirectly question the veracity
of your statements. By all means also, defend yourself against any attackers
lying that you are a murderer or a torturer. But attacks portraying you as
pompous, arrogant etc. frankly, do NOT deserve your precious time. This is a
subjective OPINION of someone. I know you relatively well and I know that
you are NOT pompous and arrogant. In my opinion, you do NOT owe anybody an
apology. Calling people that have no influence whatsoever in your life;
people that unjustifiably accuse you and your friends of the most heinous
crimes in the book, without substantiating their allegations .... calling
those people NONENTITIES, is putting it mildly.

This is going to be one disappointed subscriber if I open my mails next
Monday and do not see your next installment about the 1994 coup and the
breakdown of the command structure in the country as demonstrated by the
recent insubordination shown by the army officer that defied his superiors’
orders and beat up the journalist that went to cover the court hearings at
the barracks. That was a very significant happening that I am sure shrewd
military-men like you did not miss. I am sure that had it not been for the
distractions of the past few days, you would have commented on that topic.
Now, junior officers have blatantly shown their superiors that they will NOT
heed their orders. Thanks again for your invaluable contributions.
KB


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