>
Hamjatta,
Though I have no time at this present moment but I think it is very important at this present moment(for reasons not concerning this forum)to give you a short reply.
I am of the believed that you don’t reflect so much on things you are told.
I am a founder member of Moja-G and I believed I know much about what is going on with Moja-G at this very moment and time.In the first place there is no splinter group call Moja-G or any splinter group from Moja-G,there has never in the history of the movement ever been any splinter group from Moja-G.In the second place,Sajor Jallow left Moja -G many years before the 1994 military coup and has since never been active with the movement.I could not even remember when Ousman Manjang was lastly an active member of Moja-G.There is no hidden fact that people like myself have consulted Manjang,as late as two months back, in trying to reactivate him into the activities of the movement. Presently I don’t know any body from Gamsem calling him/herself a member of Moja-G or taking part in consultation activities of the Movement.
Moja-G as early as last year made attempts to register as a political movement,the registration was rejected,it was Dumo Saho who was leading this effort.At present known of those you made mention are in anyway,either active or passily taking part on the ground activities or consultations that are going on.So the Moja-G you are referring to must be existing only in your head and not in reality.
Ousman Manjang will self be in a better position to respond to your accusation.But I met with Manjang in April and the story he has been telling me and what you are writing here are very different.I am very aware that Mandan was in court with some members of the AFPRC,who as he claimed in court,unlawfully entered the premises of Gamcem forcefully took with them materials of Gamcem with the help of the NIA not more than two years back and according to you these are the people handing him over a government contracts interesting not so.I know that a very respectable person in the G-L informed Manjang that because of the fact that Baba jobe saw him(Ousman) at the president office talking to some people and this almost cost these people their jobs,becuase Baba ,I understand was so furious about this that he warned these people that if he sees Ousman in that office again they will have to go, incredible, with all the political powers of Baba Jobe,Sarjo Jallow is still an SOS handing over government contracts to OUSman.
Did you know that Moja-G was invited by the military Junta to work with them just after the coup and at a meeting of the homefront general body, with a great majority voting to say a Big NO to the invitation,at a time when these people were very popular ?
The reason why Moja-G is not making any statement at this present moment is because of the realities of the movement on the ground,our opposition to this fascist regime will be as consistent as it was under the courrupt,brutal,neo colonial PPP regime,despite the torture,the unlawfull arrest and detention.And the fact is,it is only Moja-G who is having one of her founding members and militant in prison for more than one year without trial.Did we(the political comrades of Dumo) not say that we are of the believed that Dumo is in prison because of his activities with movement at home. We hope that you will one day join the efforts of those who are struggling with all their forces to put an end to this fascist regime than parading with stories that are of no significant,you might only become a distractor.Our struggle will not be dictated by your desires,you have neither read or seen the constitution or the programme of the movement, so your critic of our political movement will be base on what you are told, thus of no political significance.
For Freedom
Saiks
> I've always said that there is something inherently unsettling and
> disreputable about the relationship between the AFPRC/APRC and MOJAG - or
> whatever is left of it nowadays. What at best describes this unsettling and
> disreputable relationship is a deep-seated ambivalence towards the record of
> Jammeh along the same wave-lengths of - oh dear, not them again! - PDOIS' own
> deep-seated ambivalence towards the question of Jammeh. For now, i shall
> shelve the parallels that make these two parallel cousins, i.e., MOJAG and
> PDOIS correspond together: fanatically anti- Jawara/PPP and a "furious
> hatred" of everything and or anything bourgeois and liberal.
>
> If during its heydays MOJAG was to be believed, it opposed the PPP and
> decried Jawara's autocratic-cum-capitalist order because of the damages it
> inflicted on liberty and freedom. The themes are familiar: from the
> debilitating effects of the democratic deficit inherent in the body politic
> to the gross and intolerable inequalities that "the system" inflicted on the
> Gambia's poor and underprivilege, MOJAG waxed indignant and lyrical at all
> sorts of social justice themes that leftists liked to invoke during the 70s
> and 80s. And so MOJAG represented progress whilst those that opposed them -
> notably the PPP and Jawara - were political decadents or reactionaries. Or
> they would imagine and even led us to believe. MOJAG's apparent believe in
> their own pose led to a more romantic and subversive revolutionary existence
> in the emerging urban areas of the Gambia, where their political agitation is
> the stuff of legend and subsequently earned them political exile abroad -
> notably in Scandinavia. This tour de force of an historical bravado is what
> we are made and led to believe about MOJAG's history in Gambian politics.
>
> Let me - with the hindsight of late modern Gambian history - offer a
> dissenting view. I strongly believe that the ripples discontinuity and
> ambivalence in MOJAG - or whatever is left of it - of late to a very large
> extent discredits and places a huge question mark over the achievements or
> lack thereof of their heady and romantic revolutionary existence before they
> were forced into exile. Stuff happens: if MOJAG was selflessly motivated in
> agitating against Jawara on such social justice issues like political liberty
> and socio-economic equality for all Gambians, then in the AFPRC/APRC, they
> have such themes in plenitude. Whichever you feel like slicing the AFPRC/APRC
> cake, themes of nefarious politics and injustices are there for you to choose
> to your filling. Many a commentator - and i mean commentators who never
> hesitated to denounce Jawara - were in agreement that Jammeh makes Jawara
> look saintly. More to the point, with Jammeh, it ought to be personal: Jammeh
> has more than a year ago illegally incarcerated a prominent founding member
> of MOJAG - Dumo Sarho. With Jammeh, MOJAG ought to have gone into the
> trenches. The man literally provides them with all the ammunition needed for
> political mutiny. Yet, to date, i have as of yet to see, read, hear or hear
> of through third parties MOJAG unequivocally denouncing Jammeh along the same
> lines as they did with Jawara. I'm all ears.
>
> Instead, what we have now from MOJAG is a treacherous, disreputable and
> deplorable trend that will in all essence end up denigrating any sense of
> achievement MOJAG may lay claims to. From a very prominent MOJAG activist -
> Sarjo Jallow - serving the brutal regime that illegally continues to
> incarcerate a former comrade to a splinter group from MOJAG milking State
> funds through the conduit of an NGO, remnants of whatever it is that is left
> of MOJAG are in cahoots with the APRC. How did we figure all this out? Now
> during the weekend, i had a very interesting conversation with a source - who
> happens to know very well some of these MOJAG operatives and what they are up
> to in Banjul these days. The unimpeachable source put it to me that not only
> do we have a prominent MOJAG operative serving in Jammeh's gov't but in fact
> a splinter group formed around Ousman Manjang is very much informally
> involved with the APRC and Jallow is their contact man. How does it all work
> out? According to my source, Manjang operates an NGO call GAMSEM which
> supposedly helps out the unemployed young; and Sarjo Jallow sits on the board
> of this outfit. When the NGO runs out of cash or needs new contracts to be in
> business, Sarjo uses his position of influence as a Secretary of State to
> hand Manjang gov't contracts and so the NGO becomes the trough for cementing
> the old revolutionary network. And so the vicious circle goes ... More to the
> point, another source of mine once told me that whatever it is that Sarjo is
> up to within the APRC, he is in it with Manjang: on several occasions, he
> chanced upon Manjang at Sarjo's office looking for gov't contracts to fill
> the trough. All of which should help explain why a year ago - together with
> my compatriots, Brothers Saul Khan and Kebba Dampha - i was not able to make
> Manjang denounce Sarjo's involvement with the APRC. What i didn't know then,
> of course, was that Sarjo's involvement with the APRC is, in extension,
> Manjang and his splinter MOJAG group's involvement with the APRC.
>
> This is not the end of the story. As my source puts it to me again, Manjang
> and his group - like many anti- Jawara/PPP fanatics - have taken up a more
> unbecoming and disreputable position vis-a-vis the current political
> atmosphere. My source tells me that members of MOJAG or whatever is left of
> it - especially the wing of it that aligns with Manjang and his Marxism - is
> arguing that in this presidential election, whatever keeps Jawara out is
> better than what brings him back. Here they are merely saying that the anti-
> Jawara votes are best served by going to the candidate and or party with the
> clout to win the elections and resolutely opposed to a Jawara come-back - as
> it happens, the APRC. A while ago, my able compatriot, the indefatigible
> Kebba Dampha, warned of a mentality which gives succour to the corrupt
> dictatorship: the "we hate Jawara more" mentality, as he put it then. Now
> more than ever this disease is everywhere: from inside the Gambia to
> Gambia-L, this nonsense is the genesis of the current anti- Jawara hysteria.
>
> The question becomes relevant: is MOJAG - or whatever it is that is left of
> it - in cahoots with the murderous and corrupt fascist APRC? Recent events
> suggest that there indeed exist a very disreputable relationship between
> certain influential MOJAG operatives and the APRC that is deeply unsettling
> and ambivalent. Whatever our hesitation to denounce everything MOJAG stood or
> fought, there is no doubt in the minds of many decent Gambians that MOJAG -
> or whatever it is that is left of it that aligns with Ousman Manjang and
> Sarjo Jallow - is a disreputable force; whose integrity has been left in
> tatters by their association with the APRC. In this list of dishonoured
> political forces, they've joined their parallel cousins - the PDOIS.
>
> Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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> I've always said that there is something inherently unsettling and
> disreputable about the relationship between the AFPRC/APRC and MOJAG - or
> whatever is left of it nowadays. What at best describes this unsettling and
> disreputable relationship is a deep-seated ambivalence towards the record of
> Jammeh along the same wave-lengths of - oh dear, not them again! - PDOIS' own
> deep-seated ambivalence towards the question of Jammeh. For now, i shall
> shelve the parallels that make these two parallel cousins, i.e., MOJAG and
> PDOIS correspond together: fanatically anti- Jawara/PPP and a "furious
> hatred" of everything and or anything bourgeois and liberal.
>
> If during its heydays MOJAG was to be believed, it opposed the PPP and
> decried Jawara's autocratic-cum-capitalist order because of the damages it
> inflicted on liberty and freedom. The themes are familiar: from the
> debilitating effects of the democratic deficit inherent in the body politic
> to the gross and intolerable inequalities that "the system" inflicted on the
> Gambia's poor and underprivilege, MOJAG waxed indignant and lyrical at all
> sorts of social justice themes that leftists liked to invoke during the 70s
> and 80s. And so MOJAG represented progress whilst those that opposed them -
> notably the PPP and Jawara - were political decadents or reactionaries. Or
> they would imagine and even led us to believe. MOJAG's apparent believe in
> their own pose led to a more romantic and subversive revolutionary existence
> in the emerging urban areas of the Gambia, where their political agitation is
> the stuff of legend and subsequently earned them political exile abroad -
> notably in Scandinavia. This tour de force of an historical bravado is what
> we are made and led to believe about MOJAG's history in Gambian politics.
>
> Let me - with the hindsight of late modern Gambian history - offer a
> dissenting view. I strongly believe that the ripples discontinuity and
> ambivalence in MOJAG - or whatever is left of it - of late to a very large
> extent discredits and places a huge question mark over the achievements or
> lack thereof of their heady and romantic revolutionary existence before they
> were forced into exile. Stuff happens: if MOJAG was selflessly motivated in
> agitating against Jawara on such social justice issues like political liberty
> and socio-economic equality for all Gambians, then in the AFPRC/APRC, they
> have such themes in plenitude. Whichever you feel like slicing the AFPRC/APRC
> cake, themes of nefarious politics and injustices are there for you to choose
> to your filling. Many a commentator - and i mean commentators who never
> hesitated to denounce Jawara - were in agreement that Jammeh makes Jawara
> look saintly. More to the point, with Jammeh, it ought to be personal: Jammeh
> has more than a year ago illegally incarcerated a prominent founding member
> of MOJAG - Dumo Sarho. With Jammeh, MOJAG ought to have gone into the
> trenches. The man literally provides them with all the ammunition needed for
> political mutiny. Yet, to date, i have as of yet to see, read, hear or hear
> of through third parties MOJAG unequivocally denouncing Jammeh along the same
> lines as they did with Jawara. I'm all ears.
>
> Instead, what we have now from MOJAG is a treacherous, disreputable and
> deplorable trend that will in all essence end up denigrating any sense of
> achievement MOJAG may lay claims to. From a very prominent MOJAG activist -
> Sarjo Jallow - serving the brutal regime that illegally continues to
> incarcerate a former comrade to a splinter group from MOJAG milking State
> funds through the conduit of an NGO, remnants of whatever it is that is left
> of MOJAG are in cahoots with the APRC. How did we figure all this out? Now
> during the weekend, i had a very interesting conversation with a source - who
> happens to know very well some of these MOJAG operatives and what they are up
> to in Banjul these days. The unimpeachable source put it to me that not only
> do we have a prominent MOJAG operative serving in Jammeh's gov't but in fact
> a splinter group formed around Ousman Manjang is very much informally
> involved with the APRC and Jallow is their contact man. How does it all work
> out? According to my source, Manjang operates an NGO call GAMSEM which
> supposedly helps out the unemployed young; and Sarjo Jallow sits on the board
> of this outfit. When the NGO runs out of cash or needs new contracts to be in
> business, Sarjo uses his position of influence as a Secretary of State to
> hand Manjang gov't contracts and so the NGO becomes the trough for cementing
> the old revolutionary network. And so the vicious circle goes ... More to the
> point, another source of mine once told me that whatever it is that Sarjo is
> up to within the APRC, he is in it with Manjang: on several occasions, he
> chanced upon Manjang at Sarjo's office looking for gov't contracts to fill
> the trough. All of which should help explain why a year ago - together with
> my compatriots, Brothers Saul Khan and Kebba Dampha - i was not able to make
> Manjang denounce Sarjo's involvement with the APRC. What i didn't know then,
> of course, was that Sarjo's involvement with the APRC is, in extension,
> Manjang and his splinter MOJAG group's involvement with the APRC.
>
> This is not the end of the story. As my source puts it to me again, Manjang
> and his group - like many anti- Jawara/PPP fanatics - have taken up a more
> unbecoming and disreputable position vis-a-vis the current political
> atmosphere. My source tells me that members of MOJAG or whatever is left of
> it - especially the wing of it that aligns with Manjang and his Marxism - is
> arguing that in this presidential election, whatever keeps Jawara out is
> better than what brings him back. Here they are merely saying that the anti-
> Jawara votes are best served by going to the candidate and or party with the
> clout to win the elections and resolutely opposed to a Jawara come-back - as
> it happens, the APRC. A while ago, my able compatriot, the indefatigible
> Kebba Dampha, warned of a mentality which gives succour to the corrupt
> dictatorship: the "we hate Jawara more" mentality, as he put it then. Now
> more than ever this disease is everywhere: from inside the Gambia to
> Gambia-L, this nonsense is the genesis of the current anti- Jawara hysteria.
>
> The question becomes relevant: is MOJAG - or whatever it is that is left of
> it - in cahoots with the murderous and corrupt fascist APRC? Recent events
> suggest that there indeed exist a very disreputable relationship between
> certain influential MOJAG operatives and the APRC that is deeply unsettling
> and ambivalent. Whatever our hesitation to denounce everything MOJAG stood or
> fought, there is no doubt in the minds of many decent Gambians that MOJAG -
> or whatever it is that is left of it that aligns with Ousman Manjang and
> Sarjo Jallow - is a disreputable force; whose integrity has been left in
> tatters by their association with the APRC. In this list of dishonoured
> political forces, they've joined their parallel cousins - the PDOIS.
>
> Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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