Halifa,
       What i was trying to say is that Gambians did not know the content of
the Redraft constitution because it was released on the eve of the
refrendum.
Thanks
Lamin pf Manneh


>From: foroyaa <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: To: Lamin P.F. Manneh
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:48:48 -0000
>
>Lamin,
>
>Your posting is most relevant.
>
>You wrote:
>
>"Folks, I don't want to get into this constitutional debate but I want to
>make one thing clear- most Gambians, may be with the exception of Mr.
>Halifa
>Sallah, did not know (anything) nothing about the constitution before the
>referendum.
>"The Draft Constitution was redrafted and made public on the eve of the
>referendum. Even the Administrative Area Returning Officers (including
>myself) of the electoral commission did not know what the people were
>voting
>about. Halifa probably knows the difference between these two draft
>constitutions and I will be pleased if he can tell us which one includes
>the
>wishes of The Gambian people."
>
>I am glad that you have posed this question for me to answer. It has given
>me a great opportunity to clarify matters all the more. One thing that I
>find very interesting, however, is that it seems that during this period
>that you are referring to all Gambians had become like Rip Van Winkle who
>went to sleep for twenty years only to wake up and find himself in a new
>reality that was not his making. The impression you give is that only
>Halifa
>Sallah was awake and I thank you for such an honour. I was certainly not
>asleep and I am sure that my colleagues and many other Gambians were not
>also asleep.
>
>Tomorrow I will give you a very clear and convincing reply. If I fail to do
>so, then you have every right to write back to condemn me for failing to
>honour my promise.
>
>
>Greetings.
>
>Halifa Sallah.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lamin Manneh PF <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 01:29
>Subject: Re: The Absmal State Of The Gambia: The PDOIS Connection
>
>
> >Folks, i don't want to get into this constitutional debate but i want to
> >make one thing clear- most Gambians, may be with the exception of Mr.
>Halifa
> >Sallah, did not know nothing about the constitution before the
>referendum.
>
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