Gambia-L:

Because of lack of access to the Net these days, I am sending the e-mail
below unedited. It came from a source in the Gambia. Take note that it was
sent to me on Wednesday. Again, just ignore the typographical/spelling
mistakes.

Ebrima

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>From:
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: The bankcruptcy and ineptitude of GAMTEL
>Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000
>
>Ebrima,
>I am sure most of you who tried reaching Gambia by telephone and/or fax
>these past months have been experiencing the frustrations of your life.
>The GAMTEL you left behind and the one we have now are like night and day.
>At its inception, GAMTEL was considered as having the best telephony after
>the Republic of South Africa. Well, thanks to Yahya Jammeh and his corrupt,
>inept and irresponsible regime, GAMTEL is facing its worse financial crisis
>in its brief history. First, the Transition Team under the AFPRC used the
>parastatal as the primary milking cow in furtherance of the AFPRC
>ill-conceived programmes and their individual get-rich quick schemes,
>lining their pockets with the revenue generated by GAMTEL. Amongst its
>ill-conceived policies were the decision to have GRTS as a subsidiary of
>GAMTEL,syphoning much-needed cash to finance the Radio and Television which
>are the main instruments of propaganda and repression of the Jammeh regime.
>  GAMTEL was forced to finance the Television Headquaters/studios near the
>MDI which has been at a stand still since October of last year due to lack
>of funds from mother GAMTEL. The company is left with no money for basic
>maintenance of the instrastructure and equipment. To make matters worst, a
>sub-distribution hub was erected at Kanilai to service Yahya Jammeh and the
>residence of Kanilai whose calls are subsidised by GAMTEL. If you call from
>Kanilai, you pay less than if you were to call from say Brikama, not to
>speak of Banjul. Yahya Jammeh has distorted the entire economy and the
>operations of GAMTEL. So next time you try to reach your dear ones in The
>Gambia after an hour of trying, just think of Jammeh holding on to nothing
>less than 10 seperate lines(national and international) for his exclusive
>use. He needs those secured lines to make his deals from Milan to Taipei.
>GAMTEL is broke, so are the other parastatals, thanks to the rampant
>corruption never seen before in The Gambia-a level of corruption encouraged
>and with the active participation of Yahya Jammeh. FOR YOUR INFORMATION,
>GAMTEL IS NOW RANKED 15 IN AFRICA AND STILL ON THE SKID.  ONCE THE CROWNED
>JEWEL OF GAMBIAN PARASTATAL UNDER JAWARA IS NOW THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE
>TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY. A sad story indeed.
>

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