Thanks Yero for the forward. To the best of my young and humble knowledge, i thought Halifa was part of the constitutional consultative committee that made us accept the current outdated constitution.
correct me if i am wrong. But Sallah did his level best to make Gambians accept the current constitution, so crying over it's lack of term limit now is fruitless.
The constitution shouldn't have been accepted in the first place and the opposition should not allow themselves to be used by Yahya. They should boycott partaking in all elections unless the constitution stipulated a two term limit.
No amount of coalition efforts will uproot Yahya and his cronies. NADD or whatever Alliance out there must stay away from accepting that constitution, it is useless.
For Sallah's comments to be taken seriously, He has to appoligise for the misinformation that resulted in Gambians finding themselves in Yahya perpectual rule. The year 2020 is yahya target, so let's all take a comfortable seat.
Suntou.
--- On Fri, 16/1/09, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Africa Going through ...Halifa
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, 16 January, 2009, 9:19 PM
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/africa-going-through-transition-halifa
The home to Nkrumah has truly done it once again for other Africans to
learn a lesson from.
In all honesty, the lack of term limits from most African countries,
has led to Overthrows and a lot of other problems.
Any Gov't that wants to be serious with leadership must amend its
constitution to meet term limits. That is the number one problem. I
sincerely believe that Halifa did a good job by his commentary on it.
Infact to completely root out overthrows and rebellions, people need
not to explore too far. Put in place oversight institutions and term
limits -that indeed will be a good healing mechanism to the creeping
problem.
It is truly a good read.
--
yj
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