Mr. Jallow,
I am sure you are a very smart man to be told this but should it matter
whether Ginny is white/black/Gambian/American to contribute to this forum?
Malanding Jaiteh
Pa Morro Jallow wrote:
> Ginny,
> It's about time you know that this is a GAMBIAN problem and as such
> you need to stay away from our business.
> Did you watch the MALCOLM X movie ? If you did, then did you remember
> the part that the white lady was saying all kind off stuff to Malcolm
> to try help.....
> Did you recall brother Malcolm's response ?
>
> I say to you we don't need your help and stay away from our freaking
> business.
>
> Go fight for the injustice that the White Majority is imposing on
> Black america.
>
>
> Stay 100000000000 feet away from our business. You are damn too
> freaking annoying.
>
>
> Pa Morro
>
>
>
>
>> [ This e-mail is posted to Gambia|Post e-Gathering by "Ginny Quick"
>> <[log in to unmask]> ]
>>
>>
>> Greetings all. So unless we declare the PDOIS/NDAM/NADD, or
>> whatever, crowds the largest, most jubilant, and most vocal
>> supporters, to attend the Nomination Day proceedings, and unless we
>> don't support and hold Halifa Sallah with the Messiaonic zeal and
>> esteem which his supporters do, then we will forever be "biased".
>>
>>
>> How is The Gambia Journal biased? Because they didn't fall at
>> Halifa Sallah's feet and declare him the best thing to happen to The
>> Gambia since Independence?
>>
>>
>> And people want to say that the APRC supporters are the only
>> people who display sycophancy? I'd say that if you can't take anyone
>> even remotely suggesting that Halifa Sallah isn't this perfect and
>> infallible leader who truly has the support of The Gambian people,
>> though they don't know it yet, or, if he doesn't, then the Gambian
>> people are just too stupid and ignorant to know what's good for them,
>> then I'd dare say that that is sycophantic, and one wonders how these
>> people would act if they ever got into positions of power. Would we
>> start seeing suppression of opinions, descension, trying to get around
>> the so-called "rule of law" when things aren't going your way?
>>
>>
>> I mean, look how these people react to people who don't agree
>> with them? I mean, note Pa Samba's foul-mouthed response to Haruna
>> Darbo (on the Gambia Post)? Among other things?
>>
>>
>> Judging by how these people act now, I definitely would not want
>> them representing me, that is for sure.
>>
>>
>> Ginny
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/06, Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> [ This e-mail is posted to Gambia|Post e-Gathering by "Pasamba Jow" ]
>>>
>>>
>>> Yusupha,
>>> I was constantly on the phone with people on the ground during and
>>> after
>>> the nomination and no one suggested that the NADD crowd was smaller.
>>> After
>>> reading this story, i called an independent person who disputed the
>>> Journal's story.
>>> On another note Mrs. Amie Sillah-Sarr was picked today at 12.15 Gambia
>>> time, but have been released after five hours of detention at the NIA.
>>> Pasamba
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> From: "Yusupha Jow" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [>-<] How The Presidential Nomonation Went On In The
>>> gambia
>>> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:32:27 -0700
>>>
>>>
>>> Pa Samba:
>>> Is the info incorrect? Please clarify.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Yusupha
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/29/06, Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> [ This e-mail is posted to Gambia|Post e-Gathering by "Pasamba Jow" ]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Once again the Gambia Journal has demonstrated its biasness. To
>>> suggest that
>>> NADD had a lesser crowd is outright nonesense. I just cannot
>>> understand why
>>> people would distort information just to satisfy themeselves. NADD
>>> is on the
>>> move and no amount of distortion will hold us back.
>>>
>>>
>>> Pasamba Jow
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: "Luntang" <[log in to unmask]
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>>> >
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>>> To: "GAMBIA -L@
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>>> LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> [log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: [>-<] How The Presidential Nomonation Went On In The gambia
>>>
>>> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:03:46 +0200
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>>> Daily News
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>>> How THe Presdential Nomination Went on in the Gambia
>>>
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>>>
>>> By Mohammed L Sillah and Mbaye B sarr
>>> Aug 29, 2006, 08:35
>>> On Monday 28th August 2006, tens of thousands of Gambians thronged
>>> the main
>>> streets adjacent to the office of the IEC(Independent Electoral
>>> Commission)
>>> to cheer their choice of candidates for the coming September 22nd
>>> presidential election. There were also many who were casual
>>> onlookers and
>>> passers-by out to look at the spectacle of a military occupation of
>>> the area. Hundreds of soldiers and other security details were all over
>>> stopping all traffic as well as pedestians along the
>>>
>>> main Kairaba Avenue in
>>>
>>> Serekunda. Already by 09.00hrs in the morning people dressed in their
>>> various party colors were jam-packed in cars, vans and even trucks
>>> drumming
>>> and singing. One could see about a dozen forty-footer lorries,
>>> belonging to
>>> Yahya Jammeh's privately owned Kaninlai Farms filled with singing and
>>> clapping people, mostly women, dressed in APRC uniform-type clothing
>>> that
>>> bear the pictures of President Jammeh and his wife. Everywhere in the
>>> neighborhood, people seemed to be in a carnival mood.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Though it proved out that the day was not an official public holiday as
>>> many people had feared, few could be reached in their offices, most
>>> especially civil servants. This harassed professional caste of
>>> Gambians had
>>> been compelled to buy the uniforms from their heads of Departments, the
>>> Gambia Journal has learnt, wear them in the morning and made sure they
>>> were visibly present during the nomination exercise. Even many private
>>> sector players felt compelled to also attend the nominations dressed
>>> in the
>>> ruling party's campaign gears. According to IEC regulations each
>>> presidential candidate had to pay a deposit of D 10,000 and must be
>>> nominated by 5000 registered voters. They also had to register
>>> thesupport of
>>> at least 200 registered voters in each of the seven administrative
>>> areas to
>>> be qualified as presidential candidates
>>>
>>>
>>> The
>>>
>>> NADD crowd who walked and drove slowly behind Hon. Halifa Sallah,
>>> dressed in
>>> blue haftan gown and escorted by Wa Juwara, Seedia Jatta, Landing
>>> Jallow
>>> Sonko and other members of the party's Executive Committee. A notable
>>> absentee was
>>>
>>> O.J. Jallow, former Minister of Agriculture of the First Republic
>>> who is now
>>> an Executive Committee Member of NADD. We hear he has taken ill and
>>> being
>>> hospitalize at the West Field Clinic. According to the time schedule
>>> for the
>>> nomination Hon.
>>>
>>> Halifa Sallah, presidential candidate for National Alliance for
>>> Democracy
>>> and Development (NADD) should have been the first on the row of
>>> four, to
>>> tender his nomination documents at 10:00am but he arrived late. Mr.
>>> Sallah
>>> said later that he came late because he and his followers were
>>> stopped by
>>> soldiers guarding the West Field Junction. They were forced to use a
>>> long
>>> detour. He
>>>
>>> protested strongly against that action of the soldiers, say he and his
>>> supporter would not be intimidated. Though the crowd following Mr.
>>> Sallah
>>> was relatively small, , they were highly spirited. So Mr. Sallah;s
>>> nomination was done just after
>>>
>>> 11.00 hrs. He later talked to journalists, denouncing the Jammeh
>>> government
>>> as "a failure" and promising a five-year transition of rectification if
>>> NADD should win te presidential election.
>>> Then came President Jammeh's nomination team, that was the largest.
>>> He was
>>> to have submitted his nomination papers by
>>>
>>> 11.00, but that had been disrupted by the late arrival of the NADD
>>> procession. The din of drumming, dancing and singing filled the air
>>> erupting
>>> out of a sea of people dressed in green. Two days ago, state media
>>> started
>>> calling on APRC supporters from all over the country to come and
>>> join the
>>> nomination. The announcements
>>>
>>> said that President Jammeh was
>>> inviting all of them to a match by foot to Banjul where a feast of free
>>> food awaited. After his nomination the Gambian leader was true to
>>> the words
>>> of the announcement and led his supporters to Banjul.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After this came the UDP procession led by Lawyer Ousainou Darbo,
>>> Hamat Bah
>>> and other prominent leaders of the UDP/NRP Alliance. The size of their
>>> crowd surprised many as very little political rallies have yet been
>>> seen
>>> organized by the Alliance, especially in the Greater Banjul Area. The
>>> turnout was very big and only a little less than of incumbent President
>>> Jammeh, if the 25 000 that some APRC militants boast is right, then the
>>> UDP/NRP crowd could be safely taken as 20 000, determined and
>>> enthusiastic
>>> people. Already on Sunday evening, the massive size and spirited people
>>> coming from the UDP/NRP rally at the opposition-stronghold of Bakau
>>> should
>>> have served as an indication. The Gambia Journal has learnt that the
>>> police
>>> wanted to revoke the permits for that meeting at the last minute on
>>> Sunday,
>>> August 27th. But Mr. Darboe who talked over the
>>>
>>> telephone with the Inspector General of Police, was said to have flatly
>>> refused to call off the meeting. We learned the Minister of the
>>> Interior
>>> later called Lawyer Darboe apologizing for the incident. Mr. Darboe
>>> and his
>>> crowd later held a well attended meeting at the square adjacent to
>>> the Latri
>>> Kunda Mosque.
>>>
>>>
>>> Last to arrive at the IEC headquarters to be nominated was Mr. Henry
>>> Gomez
>>> of the GPDP (Gambia Peoples Democratic Party), a newly formed party
>>> headed
>>> by a Gambian resident in Germany. Citing Section 62, C, of the
>>> constitution,
>>> the IEC refused to accept Mr. Gomez's nomination based on a residency
>>> argument. The IEC holds it that Mr. Gomez had not been continuously
>>> resident
>>> in The Gambia long enough. Mr. Gomez was obviously upset by the
>>> turning down
>>> of his nomination and claimed it was because only he could defeat
>>> Jammeh.
>>> Now that the
>>>
>>> nominations have been dawn and the way open for a three=way
>>> presidential
>>> contest., many people are praying for a peaceful election.
>>>
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