Good afternoon Haruna and Suntou,
i am happy
to come an clear the air as you stated.
First i would state here that i was elected the Secretary Youth Wing of the
UDP during the first and only national congress of the party held in Brikama
on Friday, May 29, 1998. during this congress, over six hundred party
supporters, including five representatives from each of the then 45
constituencies, attended and voted the executive in to run the affairs of
the party. The party was formed in August 1996.
Prior to this i contested the February 2, 1997 National Assembly elections
and i will refer you to the www.iec.gm. I refused to accept the results and
lodged an election petition to the Supreme Court handled by the late Chief
Justice Omar Algali from Sierra Leone. I brought 14 witnesses, some of whom
were arrested at the polling station in Gamabisara- JImara Constituency
during voting and the APRC brought only one Amie Sillah as a witness. After
the trial, it took the chief Justice eight months to come up with a judgment
which resulted dismissal of my petition. I was represented by Lawyer Marian
Denton and late lawyer Martin Mendy.
Haruna, let me cut a long story short and deal with your questions.
Question (1): My answer is Mr. Mathew as a journalist and involve in
running the Gambiaecho is the best person to answer your questions hence he
is the one who uttered his statement. It would be better you direct your
questions to him either to produce an email from me stating the lather or
produce any UDP email/ letter communication originating from Yaya Darboe
sent to the Gambiaecho or any online newspaper.
Question (2): I will refer you to my resignation letter below.
P.O.Box 500
Bronx, NY 10453
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
* RESIGNATION**:*
UDP-NY Chairperson and fellow committee members:
Reference to my verbal notice I gave during our executive meeting with the
UDP senior administrative secretary Mr. Ebriama Manneh at 1230 Evergreen, New
York, on July 17, 2009, I here by write official to tender my resignation
from my position as UDP-NY coordinator effective October 1, 2009.
Working as a coordinator has been challenging but wonderful experience. I
could not ask for a better team of colleagues. I will remain an ordinary
member of the executive .There is no doubt the UDP-NY Chapter has been very
vocal and supportive to the party back home. Without hesitation I will say
the new coordinator and new team coming in will do better than what has been
achieved.
As I mentioned to you during the July 17, 2009 executive meeting I will be
assuming a new position as a coordinator with a not-for-profit organization,
which do not permit me to serve as a coordinator or chairman in a political
party to avoid conflict of interest. Hence a congress is due I will use
this resignation to decline re-nomination to the position of a UDP
coordinator.
The last time we had congress was on April 23, 2006 and it is fair to give
chance to the younger ones or other people to gain experience.
I thank you all for all the support you gave me.
Sincerely,
Saihou Mballow
Cc: UDP Secretariat,
Banjul , The Gambia .
Question (3) I believe the dates on my resignation took care of question 3.
Question (4) The UDP like i stated in my first paragraph, UDP congress was
held, people were elected in various positions: Ousainou Darboe, Secretary
General and Party Leader, Yaya Jallow Deputy Secretary General and Deputy
Party Leader, Lamin Waa Juwara, National Organizing / Propaganda Secretary,
Ebrima Manneh-Senior Administrative Secretary , Amodou Taal - Administrative
Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mariam Denton- Administrative
Secretary for Legal and Human rights Affairs, Amodou Sanneh- Treasurer,
Femi Peters- Campaign Manager, Momodou Lamin Nyassi-President Youth Wing ,
Saihou Mballow-Secretary Youth Wing
Aji Jambanding Drammeh- President Women Wing, Aji Sukaina Kah -First Vice
President Women Wing, Aji Maimuna Njie -Second Vive President Women Wing,
Aji Mariama Secka -Secretary Women's Wing, Anta Samba- Secretary Female
Youth, Maimuna Ceesay- Chairperson Female Youth Wing
Automatically the following UDP National Assembly Members became Executive
Members:
Hon. Kemesseng Jammeh, Late Hon. Abou Karamba Kassama -member for Badibu
Central, Late Hon. Buba Samura- member for Kiang Central, Hon. Dembo Bojang
, member for Bakau, Hon. Almamy Abubakar Touray, member for Niani, Hon. Omar
Mass, member for Kiang West, Hon. Seedy Amang Kanyi, member for Jarra East.
Here in New York , on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 UDP supporters came together
at the Gambia Society Hall and elected an executive: Hon. Wassa Janneh, Hon.
Pasaikou Kujabie, Hon. Omar Mass, Yaya Manneh etc. What ever i can do, my
colleagues can do the same because we are working together as a team.
Question (5) Again i will refer you to Mathew whom i have no control of
what to write and when to write hence he is the one you are dealing with
however, i am giving you the courtesy by responding.
Gentlemen, i consider this to be my last communication on this subject
matter. Thank you all.
Saihou
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Saihou,
>
> This is your friend and cousin Haruna. My grandfather had the honour and
> privilege of being married to Hon. Yayi Bandeh, daughter of Musa Molloh, the
> one only. I will not bore you with the story of our relationship for you are
> more eminently aware than myself. Falai Baldeh, chief Lamin Bandeh, Hon.
> Hamat Bah and countless others, even Mathew know the story of the Darbos and
> our relations with fulladu. I am aware that the Darbos have signed
> protection treaties with your cousin Toucouleurs and Serers and offered
> themselves to fight in colonial armies overseas in exchange for protection
> against slavery for our bretheren tribes and safe passage for our herdsmen
> as they corale their flock to pasture in the tempestuous wilderness frought
> with slave merchants. A Fula friend (Jallow) once referred to my cousin and
> coleague Cherno Baldeh as "Machido" when he couldn't understand why Cherno
> seems always to be by my side. He did not understand the sacred
> relationships that makes a Darbo, a bah, a Dem, a Baldeh, a Bandeh, and even
> a Jallow, cast the narrow ethnicity aside for the more valuable biblical
> sermon for value community. To this day, Cherno cannot find words to explain
> to this Jallow why Cherno and myself seem inseparable. Another Jallow would
> come to realize why a Dem and Darbo seem inseparable. I will let them wallow
> in their various decrepitudes. I would later come to the aid of Cherno's
> Jallow and his wife - AU GRATIS, even as they schemed to undermine me of
> which I have full knowledge of. It continues to this day. I keep it in
> benign check. This is certainly not to say that the Jallows are an aggrieved
> lot, perhaps carrying burdens of prior ethnic losses, but they are very
> unaware of the non-ethnic nature of the Darbos. We cannot survive as a clan
> by narrowing our scope or limiting our fortune to one ethnicity, tribe,
> community, nation, religion, or regional outfit. You know the story of the
> Darbos very well. Even what I am not privy to.
>
> Now that the noise has subsided, I want you to know that it has been my
> privilege to welcome Mathew to our Ellen community if for a brief sojourn.
> He came for a reason and DaarManso enabled him to come so I can commune with
> him. It is as much a value to him as it is to me. Any community worth its
> members should aim to enhance the life experiences of her members, and to
> rehabilitate her criminals. That in essence is the worth of any community.
> So Mathew is always welcome at Ellen. You and I have been longtime community
> members of Ellen and this is not to even speak of our personal relationships
> outside Ellen. These are based on sacrosanct trust and integrities that have
> survived for centuries.
>
> JDAM, our other coleague here at Ellen, asked you a very significant
> question. I am sure you missed it. For emphasis, he highlighted the question
> and I will represent it here for your review:
>
> *To ask a direct question, what do you understand to be Mathew's larger
> contention, and what is your view of its validity?*
> **
> This is a very significant question and I advise that you not ignore it.
> You should answer it and PUBLICLY here. I am not advising you issue a press
> release to answer it, we at Ellen just wish you to answer it truthfully and
> honestly to the best of your ability. Allah does things for a reason.
> DaarManso enables folk for a reason. These are some of the items you may
> consider when you answer:
>
> 1. Did you Hon. Saihou share with Mathew OR OTHER that Hon. Ousainou
> Darboe, in his quest to discriminate against you, determined that all
> communication about the UDP be diverted to Ousainou's brother Yahya Darboe?
>
> 2. Did you Hon. Saihou share with Mathew OR OTHER that this was the reason
> you resigned as coordinator of UDP-NY branch?
>
> 3. When did you resign from this capacity as coordinator of UDP-NY and
> when did Ousainou surreptituously create this information by-pass as against
> you?
>
> 4. Who is responsible for communication dissemination in UDP?
>
> 5. Being an executive member of UDP proper, is it possible that anyone can
> bypass you in matters of communication?
>
> In your capacity as head of a valuable NGO, it will be significant for you
> to answer these questions so folks who wish to be associated with you can
> make educated decisions about your character and disposition. Do not take
> this lightly. Mathew's innuendos, slander, and libel to defame the character
> of Hon. Ousainou Darboe, will inevitably leave yours sullied as collateral
> damage. No amount of spin or posturing can save anyone on this earth. All
> cards on deck. Further I'd like to discern my future engagements with
> Ousainou and or you based on your impression in the answers you provide us.
> Leaving the questions unanswered for reasons such as "well I don't want to
> engage in a back and forth" "I'm not here to judge who is right or wrong"
> "Well I don't want to foster acrimony" "Well for the good of my party I
> would not want to offend Ousainou" will do you no good as a human being. And
> you are a human being and my friend first before you are a UDP executive
> member. It could very well be that an overzealous admirer of yours shared
> your true feelings with Mathew. I am aware that a person of your stature and
> potential will have oodles of hangers on. Some genuine, some
> self-interested, some benign. Answer therefore you must. For you and your
> family's sakes.
>
> I therefore look forward eagerly to your answers and the sooner the better
> so we can close this unfortunate chapter. And if anyone can close a chapter
> in life, you know its yours truly, HARUNA.
>
> Thank you for your audience and God speed.
>
> Haruna.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 11:37 am
> Subject: Re: Echo's UDP/HALIFA article
>
> Saihou
>
> The excerpt below was extracted from an indirect response to sentiments you
> expressed on an earlier occasion when some fellow Gambians found it
> necessary to engage in difficult conversation.
>
> *"Back to Drammeh, and the subject matter of this query. Is Drammeh's
> problem one of posting quota, as Mr Mali regularly cries about, or is he
> suspended/delisted for his views on Ousainou Darboe? If the latter, I urge
> you to reconvene yourself, or the pertinent Committee, and reinstate his
> rights. We won't be a complete society without embracing all shades of view,
> and contrary to my respected political activist - Mballow - conversations
> around national issues should be as vigorous as possible. No matter how
> hurtful they may be, I reject the notion that serious national efforts are
> likely to collapse from the weight of a few verbal salvos."*
> **
> As in the above, I am unconvinced the current conversation, "*Echo's
> UDP/HALIFA article*", is a "sensitive exchange", and that "at the end of
> the day it is going to be a minus on our side".
>
> What "side" do you have in mind?
>
> Although culturally Mandinka, I do not see myself in Mathew's worldview of
> tribe and Gambian politics. This is not to say his views on tribe are
> completely off tangent, only that the central perspective of his discourse
> is of quite marginal concern to me.
>
> I am pleased to say that in our struggle for freedom and dignity in Gambian
> public space, I am happy to find myself in the company of the likes of Joe
> Sambou. I trust the guy completely. Joe may be culturally Wollof, but he is
> not ethnically so. Needless to say, he is nowhere close to being Mandinka.
>
> In similar vein, Mboge, a sensible, sincere, and non-partisan Gambian who,
> in his public life, worships only democracy and its concomitant value of the
> rule of law. Mboge is not Mandinka but I treasure his company
> tremendously. He exhibits fairness in his dealings!
>
> Ditto Baba Galleh, Bailo, Demba Baldeh, and Yero! All these gentlemen are
> of Fula extraction, but I am satisfied I can do business with them on issues
> of public dignity and the rule of law in The Gambia.
>
> In Mathew's worldview, Suntou, and Haruna, are probably to be considered as
> my natural allies. I value these two gentlemen for their qualities, not
> because they are Mandinka.
>
> I accept that ethnic nationalism may pre-occupy the minds of certain
> Mandinkas. From what I have encountered among Gambians, on-, and offline,
> the same goes for some members of other ethnicities.
>
> On whether Gambia belongs to Mandinkas, I wish to reassure Mathew that I do
> not think so at all. A Mandinka is unlikely to become a democratically
> elected President of The Gambia if his/her support is limited to the tribe.
> Indeed such would be an unstable presidency even if by some miracle, s/he
> managed to pull it off.
>
> In a nutshell, my larger point is that a Gambia under-girded by the rule of
> law is what protects all our citizenry. I therefore urge you not to fear
> acrimonious conversation. Although individuals are free to converse as they
> wish, it is always advisable to remind oneself of the platform in use.
>
> I am happy to read what members of my community write, even if I cringe in
> so doing. I prefer words to bullets, conversation to fighting. You need not
> be troubled that we do not show enough love to each other because of our
> quarrels. Love is an inferior value to respect, and I would rather the rule
> of law than gamble on the fickleness of being liked. Let Mathew, Haruna, and
> Suntou speak as suits their individual personalities.
>
> *To ask a direct question, what do you understand to be Mathew's larger
> contention, and what is your view of its validity? *
>
> On Halifa, I again repeat that his legacy is a live issue, and therefore
> remains unsettled, but so far, he is on the right side of Gambian political
> development in the so-called First-, and Second Republics.
>
>
>
>
>
> LJDarbo
>
>
>
>
>
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Justice for Muhammed Drammeh
> To: "The Gambia and related-issues mailing list" <
> [log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, 23 April, 2009, 9:49
>
> Malangding
>
> I know even our Malian friend - unless he is the elusive *Watchman* who
> just ran off that insufferable Ethiopian apologist for tyranny in The Gambia
> - must be in the very early hours of the US day, and as such, I do not
> expect a response for several hours. By the way, Haruna was suggested as a
> candidate, but his temperament, specialism, and dictum appears different
> from that of the *Watchman*, with the latter's milieu covering the broad
> sweep of western history from Antiquity, through the Renaissance, and
> Enlightenment, to the modern day democratic citadels where the refinements
> of those ideas are being continually practicalsied in the political realm. I
> don't suppose you know *The Watchman,* but let us know if you have any
> ideas who s/he is.
>
> Back to Drammeh, and the subject matter of this query. Is Drammeh's problem
> one of posting quota, as Mr Mali regularly cries about, or is he
> suspended/delisted for his views on Ousainou Darboe? If the latter, I urge
> you to reconvene yourself, or the pertinent Committee, and reinstate his
> rights. We won't be a complete society without embracing all shades of view,
> and contrary to my respected political activist - Mballow - conversations
> around national issues should be as vigorous as possible. No matter how
> hurtful they may be, I reject the notion that serious national efforts are
> likely to collapse from the weight of a few verbal salvos. In any case,
> Drammeh met his match in Yanks, and I am angry at you for taking away
> a deevloping entertainment.
>
> Please reconsider your decision on Drammeh. May be he knows *The Watchman*who drove the proxy Gambian, Dida Halake, from online Gambia.
>
>
>
>
>
> LJDarbo
>
>
> On *Wed, 22/4/09, Saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [>-<] Let's move on for the interest of one Gambia.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, 22 April, 2009, 5:00
>
>
>
>
> Dear brothers, sisters and friends,
> in our
> honest view, Gambia is at a crossroads in which Gambians and friends of The
> Gambia are presented with choices. Despite our individual differences,
> political and otherwise, the death of our nation is taking place right
> before our eyes and the country is taken hostage by the present regime.
> Please, if we are serious in helping free the nation from this tyrant, we
> should depart from our current way of launching personal attacks against our
> opposition political leaders who are on the ground. Let's give them the
> support so that one day we will tell the world look we are mature people and
> we have made President Jammeh's regime a history.
>
> Again, we have an opportunity to save our country by engaging in serious
> give and take discussions among ourselves and leaders at the workplaces,
> restaurants, forums, homes and so fort to effect peaceful democratic change.
>
> Let's not forget that Mr.Jammeh has unleashed his hired pen brigades to
> join us at any level and at any proposed venue for unity discussions that we
> are headed for another futile result. Please, we must not give in to a gang
> of scoundrels who make their living at the expense of our people by
> supporting a ruthless regime that depends on violence to keep it in power.
>
> I would end by thanking Mr. Suntou Touray and Mr. Mathew Jallow, after
> speaking to them this evening pertaining to serious and urgent issues in the
> country, we all agreed that we should move on promote unity and open new
> pages to sound this alarm to our political leadership to get its act
> together in order to coordinate a clear, coherent and unified alternative
> vision to the Jammeh's regime.
>
> Saihou
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 6/5/10, Saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]>* wrote:
>
> From: Saihou Mballow <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Echo's UDP/HALIFA article
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, 6 May, 2010, 7:09
>
> Dear Mathew, Haruna and Suntou,
> it is really sad
> to see three gentlemen of your caliber expected to bring Gambians together
> regardless of tribe to be involve in such a divisive exchange. Gambians have
> always live together in harmony regardless of religion and tribe therefore
> our task today is to work harder to unite Gambians but not otherwise. We
> all know the situation back home is not created by any singe tribe but by
> few individuals so it is the responsibility of every good Gambian like you
> to promote peace and positive behaviors and discourage bad ones so that one
> day we would see each other our heads up when this regime is gone.
>
> I am not here to judge who is wrong or right but appealing to you to put
> aside this sensitive exchange because at the end of the day it is going to
> be a minus on our side.
>
> Today, Ousainou Darboe, Halifa Sallah, Yaya Jallow, OJ Jallow and Hamat Bah
> should not be use for a tribal divide and my resignation has no basis in
> this exchange.Let's promote love and harmony among ourselves.
>
> I have spoken to both Mathew and Haruna when a friend drew my attention to
> this exchange and i believe it is over. I will speak to Suntou in the
> morning.
>
> Saihou
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
>
>> [In a message dated 5/5/2010 8:27:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> [log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]>writes: Haruna…If
>> you look closer, the one who hollers tribalist is the vrai tribalist. Just a
>> loser, but a tribalist nonetheless
>> Suntou/Haruna, I kinda expected this from the both of you, so I am not
>> disappointed.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Hi Mathew. OK. Soy ou expected my reaction to your convoluted logic.
>> Oioned K.
>>
>> [The experience here is such that any criticism of UDP and Ousainou
>> Darboe, can expect a duality of reaction from the both of you.] Mathew
>> Jallow.
>>
>> I suppose in here you mean the Gambiaecho or your neck of the woods
>> somewhere. Why should a duality of reaction from Haruna and Suntou stop you
>> from criticising UDP and Ousainou Mathew??? I think you're confusing
>> crioticism with lies, slander, and libel don't you?
>>
>> [As usual, you both seem to feed of each other, seeking validation for
>> your views from each other, and in the process, feeding the perception many
>> have of you as fomenters of tribal insensitivity.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Why don't you try to speak for your friggin self. With your acumen, I'm
>> not sure another Gambian would desire you speak for them. In general, one
>> can only speak for him/herself and his/her family members of minor age.
>>
>> [You do not see how it appears when you give to yourself the license to
>> defend or even as it seems, act as the spokesmen for the UDP.] Mathew
>> Jallow.
>>
>> 1. I am not a spokesman for UDP or Ousainou. That will be fraudulent
>> agency. My family did not teach me how to do that. I cannot help those to
>> whom it APPEARS that I am a spokesman for either Ousainou or UDP. And I
>> couldn't care less what the criminal conjures up in his barren mind.
>>
>> [The UDP is a Gambian political party,] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Noooooooooo
>>
>> [as such, I for one, will seek no one’s consent to write and criticize it
>> in any way I choose. I could care less what anyone says, thinks or does.]
>> Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> I am glad Mathew that you appreciate your fundamental rights of free
>> expression and association for industry and religion. For you to feign
>> Haruna is interested in your considerations, quoi que sa soit, is the
>> dumbest idea I've ever heard.
>>
>> [Your agitated barking and snarling, rather than preempt my criticisms of
>> both the UDP and Ousainou, will instead exacerbate them, might I say.]
>> Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> You would agree therefore that I have no intent in guiding your speech.
>> You will however be responsible for your lies, innuendo, slander, and libel.
>> And you can count on Haruna to strip search you.
>>
>> [The advice I wrote to UDP has so incensed you that you took a
>> psychoanalytical adventure to find motives in what I wrote.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> I think when you wrote the crap, you took a psychoanalytical adventure
>> (otherwise known as witch-hunting). So why would you curtail the privileges
>> of your fellow citizens, no matter the number, to go witch-hunting???????
>> The vraie witch????????????
>>
>> [The way I see it, you both either have no clue or a proper understanding
>> of what Gambia was like during the Jawara years, particularly as it related
>> to the way our tribes coexisted to each other, specifically at the realm of
>> governance and politics, or perhaps you just want to sweep that ugly period
>> under rug.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Mathew, I am not the spokesperson of Jawara's government or of Jawara
>> himself. Besides, if you dig in that government, you may find a family
>> member coexisting with another of another tribe. A government cannot
>> regulate tribalism and all tribes are equally prone to tribalism. I'm sure
>> you don't understand the various tribes of the people who served the Jawara
>> government you idiot. What does this have to do with calling someone
>> tribalist simply because you overheard them saying the Mandingo should
>> govern Gambia???? I suppose you haven't heard the many Serers, Fulas,
>> Sarahules, Wollofs, Akus, Jolas, Njagos, Toucouleurs, Laobes, and Balantas
>> say their tribe should govern Gambia. What an idiot.
>>
>> [Well, I will not.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> You will not what? Oh you mean you will not sweep the Jawara era under the
>> rug. Well knock yourself out. I think Jawara wrote a book about his era.
>> That doesn't look to me like someone wanting to sweep his era under the rug.
>> Remmember though, when you come across your tribesmen engaged in tribalism,
>> remmember not to ignore that. We will begin to realize who the vrai
>> tribalists are.
>>
>> [I like many others, was a victim and a causality of that era, and as
>> such, it was my reality then, and a part of my life story now.] Mathew
>> Jallow.
>>
>> Mathew, you have shared with us that you had been a casualty on many
>> occasions which had nothing to do with the Jawara government. I
>> understand you had a lot of personal problems. But why would you hold
>> Gambians to ransom for those personal problems. We are not interested in
>> solving your personal problems for you. Revolutionary or no Revolutionary. I
>> mean what kind of a man uses his personal injuries to cast gratuitous
>> aspersions on his fellow citizen???????????????????????????????????
>>
>> [I will write about issues of tribalism, especially how the Mandinkas and
>> Banjul Wollofs pillaged and looted billions of dollars to bankrupt two
>> foreign funded development banks and nearly ten revenue generating
>> government agencies.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> It seems to me Mathew that looting public funds is a crime of theft. Not
>> one of tribalism. How does the Banjul Wollofs and Mandingos stealing make
>> them tribalist? Are you aware of any Fula thieves Mathew????
>> And once you share with us the Mandingo, Wollof, Fula, Jola, Aku, Serer,
>> Njago, Toucouleur, Sarahule, Balanta, and other thieves, let us know how
>> that makes them tribalist??? And what does that have to do with UDP
>> or Ousainou?????????????????????????????????????????????/
>>
>> [I will stop writing about tribal issues only when The Gambia becomes like
>> Senegal.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> I know you're not stoopid Mathew but I wouldn't want Gambia to become like
>> Senegal. Scout's honour. Why would you stop writing about tribalism when
>> Gambia becomes like Senegal?? I'm just curious.
>>
>> [Then there will be no audience for my tribal awakening cause, but as of
>> now, one only has to look at the brutal exchanges that both of you
>> frequently engage in with some of Halifa Sallah’s talibans to see how much
>> progress we have made in this issue.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> I'm glad you're keeping up with us Mathew. And the exchanges with
>> PDOISards is not generally about tribalism. Just like you personal
>> misfortunes and losses tend to take tribalism's connotation. Even if
>> tribalism has nothing to do with your losses and misfortunes.
>>
>> [Even a fool can read the nasty tribal bend embodied in your exchanges.]
>> Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> And after the fool reads the nasty tribal bends in the exchanges, what is
>> the fool supposed to do????
>>
>> [For some reason, Suntou has convinced himself that when I write about
>> tribalism relating to the Mandinkas experience, it is fear. Fear of what,
>> might I ask? Are you kidding me? I am an equal opportunity critic of both
>> the Wollofs and the Mandinkas experiences in our country, especially during
>> those dark Jawara years when the Mandinkas wanted it all, and some
>> orchestrated elaborate schemes to exclude everyone else from our nation’s
>> meager resources. And, you wander why, first, Kukoi Samba Sanyang burst onto
>> the scene, and when that failed, Yahya Jammeh came along. Things don’t
>> happen in a vacuum. True the Wollofs were notorious for treating the
>> Mandinkas as second class citizens; Mandinkas too were later notorious for
>> treating everyone else as foreigners in their country. When I was in
>> college, I had no concept of tribalism, and my best friends were Mandinkas
>> for the most part; Sarjo Sonko from Essau, late Lamin Jobarteh from Kaur
>> Janneh Kunda, and Musa Trawalley from Georgetown. Musa and I were so close,
>> I spend Xmas and Easter holidays with his family in Bakau, and we were
>> always posted to the same schools when we were teaching. Everyone understood
>> how so bound together by friendship we were. By the mid-80s, I was no longer
>> naïve, for I had became aware of the tribally motivated rivalries in the
>> country. And I lost count of how many times I heard Mandinkas saying; Gambia
>> mandinkol la banko leti; and ridiculous and irritating as that sounds, some
>> hold on to that stupid way of thinking.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Mathew, I hate to break this to you but we are not really interested in
>> who your friends are or what tribe they belong to. ANd if you're trying to
>> demonstrate with your Mandingo friends that you are not tribalist, well you
>> have failed miserably. I'm reminded that the first thing a racist does is
>> count how many blacks, Arabs, and Lationos he/she has as friends. Don't
>> worry Mathew. I don't know about Suntou but I don't put my pants on both
>> legs at a time. So its the Wollof and Mandingo who are tribalist?? Keep
>> pretending you idiot. And what does that have to do with Ousainou and the
>> UDP. I still don't get your lies and innuendos Mathew.
>>
>> [The other point I want to make is neither of us are aware of what I
>> believe the real reason for Saihou Mballow resignation from his UPD
>> position. During the U.K. demonstrations over the incarceration of Femi
>> Peters last month, Gambians in the U.S. missed Mballow’s organizing skills
>> with which he mobilized us to confront the powers that be at the U.N to seek
>> justice for Mr. Peters and other causes. It took Saikou Mballow years to
>> develop and bring to bear the combined efforts of many Human Rights
>> organizations in the New York area, now all that effort seems to go down the
>> drain. Mballow selflessly led the charge to organize marches and
>> demonstrations at the UN and other venues with supreme success in the name
>> of the UDP. Gambians in New York rallied in droves to his call in support of
>> the causes he was involved in as representative of UDP.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> I think you are aware of my commendation of Saihou Mballow variously for
>> his efforts on the behalf of his fellow citizens. I don't understand what
>> you're getting at here Mathew?
>>
>> [For the first time, we in the U.S did not organize demonstration on
>> behalf Mr. Femi Peters, because the Ousainou Darboe, decided for reason to
>> make the U.D.P a family business by-pass Mballow and the great
>> infrastructure he helped built for UDP/NRP over the years, and instead send
>> all official communications to his brother Yahya Darboe.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> These are the lies and innuendo you base your tribalist views on Mathew.
>> What a shame? If Saihou told you that Ousainou decided to make the UDP a
>> family business, he would be lying and I know Saihou would not tell you
>> that. If Ousainou makes UDP a family business that is tantamount to
>> declaring the UDP dead. Don't you see Mathew, your arguments don't hold
>> water. Further, if Saihou tells you that Ousainou by-passed him by requiring
>> all communication go to his brother Yahya, Saihou would be lying again
>> because Saihou is in New York and only responsible for UDP New York. And I
>> don't think Yahya is in New York is he? So whatever infrastructure Saihou
>> built in New York Yahya would not be of much value to that.
>> One thing caught my eye Mathew. You insinuated that when Saihou was
>> coordinator of UDP New York, you have attended and organised demonstrations
>> with him. Why would you not continue to organise demonstrations with Saihou
>> when Saihou is no longer Coordinator of UDP-NY?????????? Do you see how
>> tribalism ugly head can rear itself sometimes???? WHat does organising a
>> demonstration for Femi Peters' freedom have to do with Saihou being a
>> coordinator of UDP-NY???? You will be surprised to realise that Saihou is
>> part of the UDP executive like Femi Peters. So you would not join Saihou in
>> organizing a demonstration on the behalf of Femi if Saihou is not
>> coordinator of UDP-NY. I say go eat shit. What business is it of yours
>> anyway how a political party handles its affairs?????
>>
>> [built a formidable infrastructure for UDP/NRP over the Mballow I am told
>> by reliable sources felt marginalized and decided to quit, rather than hold
>> on to a thankless job.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> If Saihou told you he felt being part of UDP was a thankless job, then
>> Saihou is in the UDP for the wrong reason. You see honest and sober folk
>> don't join political parties in anticipation of being thanked. And if Saihou
>> told you that, then he was being insincere because his resignation indicated
>> he wished to remain a member of UDP. Now there are several parties in
>> Gambia, but Saihou CHOSE to be in and remain in the UDP. He could belong to
>> PDOIS, NRP, or GMC? In your attempts to justify your lies and innuendo,
>> Mathew you dig a deeper hole for yourself. By all means I want you to talk
>> about tribalism and crime. I just don't think you have a right to lie
>> against someone or to slander someone's good name because of your personal
>> problems with other. Your personal problems are not significant enough to
>> the rest of us unless those problems bear on your fellow citizens' rights.
>> Not being given refrigerator water hardly qualifies as a constitutional
>> crisis.
>>
>> [Now, he can stay at home, drink attaya, watch TV with friends, and enjoy
>> his family, rather than suffer the hassle and bustle of crowded New City
>> trying to coordinate demonstrations.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Even when he was coordinator, Saihou stays home, drinks attaya, watches TV
>> with friends, and enjoys his family. I don't see why a demonstration on the
>> behalf of Femi Peters should curtail that activity. Are you sure Saihou is
>> telling you these things or is the tribalist trying to justify his/her
>> tribalism???
>>
>> [Yaya Darboe his replacement cannot convince Gambians to drop all their
>> work in order to join him in a downtown Manhattan demonstration on behalf of
>> UDP for the good of our country.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> I think you malign Yahya unnecessarily. Yahya is not in New York.
>>
>> [UDP will see what took Mballow many years to build, suddenly collapsed to
>> nothingness, all because Ousainou Darboe decided to practice nepotism with
>> his brother.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> Ousainou's nepotism or not, if Mballow's INFRASTRUCTURE was so formidable
>> on the behalf of his coleagues in UDP, I don't know why it would crumble to
>> nothingness. I know a thing or two about infrastructure building. But you
>> idiots think praise-singing and worship is why you should engage in
>> development. No wonder all your achievements are short-lived. You have no
>> loyalty to anything or anybody butr yourself because your crimes will not
>> allow you to set up roots in any community.
>>
>> [It is the typical African way of governing. I wanted to write about this
>> mini-quake a while ago, but I was convinced not to for fear of the political
>> repercussion at home and abroad. You two might also want to know that when
>> Ousainou and Yaya Jallow came to the U.S. some months ago, Yahya Darboe I am
>> informed, tried to control what Yaya Jallow did; just acting like UDP was a
>> family business he could control. The UDP may have Fulas like Yaya Jallow,
>> but who can Yaya convince to vote for Darboe. Most Fulas don’t know him. But
>> O.J is a different matter. As for Hamat Bah, he has a successful business to
>> protect, and I will not count on him to be brazenly political against
>> Jammeh.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> This is how they go around undermining themselves and blaming others for
>> their losses. How can Yahya try to control what Yahya Jallow did???? I think
>> I should be disappointed in Yahya Jallow for saying that to you or Saihou if
>> he did. Yahya Jallow is not in the UDP just to convince Fulas to vote UDP I
>> hope. If he is, I suggest he leave the UDP right away. I was under the
>> impression Yahya has other values he can bring to bear for the UDP. Besides,
>> no-one is putting a gun to his head to remain in the UDP are they????? In
>> this era of freedom and human rights, it is very difficult to lie against
>> someone and have it stand without reasonable evidence. If the fulas need a
>> fula in UDP to convince them to vote UDP, I would encourage them not to vote
>> UDP. That is dishonest and odious tribalism.
>>
>> [One more point I will make is that many of the folks Haruna calls UDP
>> technocrats, were part of the failed Jawara regime; consisting of a few
>> notorious tribalists, many people of mediocre intellect, whose primary
>> qualifications during Jawara years, was Mandinkaness. Finally, analyze and
>> criticize all you want, it ain’t gonna have any impact, whatsoever, on what
>> I write, when I write, or how I write. So you will do yourself a great
>> service if you save your breath and energies. For trying to restrain me in
>> matters of Gambian politics is like talking to a wall. Can’t hear ya
>> buddies.] Mathew Jallow.
>>
>> What does being part of the failed Jawara regime have to do with a
>> technocrat? And of what value is a technocrat if he/she can't design a
>> solution to mankind's problems???? I don't know the UDP technocrats to be
>> Mandinkas. Unless you imply that they pretended to Jawara that they were
>> Mandingo. The UDP technocrats are Fula, Wollof, Mandingo, Aku, Sarahule, and
>> Serer. Ask Saihou or Yahya.
>>
>> Haruna. I haven't seen a man who thinks he's so critically important to
>> everyone else than this Mathew idiot.
>>
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