Brother Sidibeh,
I agree that the Senegalese should have investigated the source of this
information thoroughly before confronting Jammeh with it. However, the mistake of
the Senegalese government should not in anyway be the point of focus.The
Senegalese did do their home work later and came out to the Jammeh regime with
their subsequent findings, so I think they may have made a mistake but they
corrected that mistake.
Yaya Jammeh was bent on finding a means of silencing the opposition and lo
and behold, an opportunity like this just happens to fall in his lap? Dwelling
on the follies of the Senegalese at this point would be missing the point
altogether. It is the act itself and the individual who carried it out and the
intent behind it that we should focus on. This no doubt was intended to give
Jammeh the tools he needed to make good his promises to silence the
opposition.
I say that whoever did the deed was working in tandem with Yaya Jammeh.
Jabou Joh
In a message dated 11/26/2005 3:10:17 P.M. Central Standard Time,
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Ebrima,
many thanks for this "new light" on the current political torpor obtaining
in our dear Gambia. Without much study of this exposé, it is apparent that the
disaster is an original Senegalese concoction. They made the first mistake!
How can Senegal, inspite of its bureaucratic sophistication, make Yahya
Jammeh privy to the contents of such a damaging document without first resorting
to establish beyond reasonable doubt, the authenticity of said document? How
grossly could all the intelligence at the disposal of President Wade fail to
see that our Lordship Yahya Jammeh would simply wax hysterical at the
prospect of parading oppositional heavyweights to the Mile Two Hilton?
How on earth can our Yahya, now after all this huge furore, persuade himself
that it was all a monumental hoax, that arresting his political nemesis, was
a big big mistake, a mistake that is going to make him appear even smaller
than he previously was?
In his outrageous Koriteh speech Presiddent Jammeh made mention of the
opposition, Gambians active online, and other malicious elements (Samba Bah and
Lie Conteh?) bent on implanting the seeds of discord between Gambia and
Senegal. Is it improbable that Yahya Jammeh knew of the forgery but acted on his
threat to silence some people anyway?
Besides these immediate reactions, I am convinced you obviously know the
source of the forgery. If the forgery is true, then it must be said without
equivocation that it was extremely criminal.
All of us need to think of one thing: The struggle to unseat Jammeh is a
JUST CAUSE. There is therefore no need whatsoever to resort to criminal methods
or misrepresentation facts in our efforts to get to that noble end.
Cheers,
Momodou S Sidibeh
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