10 July, 2002

Hello folks,

There is no leadership in this universe which never encountered or regretted its political mistakes as a human being. We share the good will with the president of the Gambia to welcome Sir Dawda Jawara back home. Sir Dawda we welcome you back home. Your colleagues ex presidents who are also in exile surely will envy you because there is no place like home. We hope that the rest of Gambians in exile will also be permitted to come home very soon unconditionally. The Diaspora who have put themselves into exile because of economical struggle or political fear also want to come home. Therefore government authorities should make it easier for the Diaspora to implement their projects that they want to establish in the Gambia and give them very good support to meet the authorities who are connected in their projects and avoid to bagatellise their projects and block them to come in their offices or deny them access to see the president and refuse to give them bank loan and other necessary things to succeed in their projects.

Sir Dawda, you will be surrounded by many people - some with bad intentions and some with good intentions. The ones with the good intentions are people who want to see you in peace and tranquillity, to see you in full humble join hands with your children, your brothers and your sisters, nieces and nephews including for the development of our national economy and infra structure, hand in hand, eye to eye with the Gambia government as a very important peaceful and reliable elderly adviser in national and international matters.

We ask you kindly to break the record to be the best elderly man in our times, help to eradicate all our outstanding debts from Europe to America and help to import interesting companies to build hydraulic (infra structure or companies) and also to develop the fishing and farming industry which are the national resources of the Gambia for decades. Gambia is the most backward country in this aspect in the entire sub-region. To help the government and the people to stop the clowns and the ungrateful and merciless egoists who are in charge of our sea defence, to forfeit the contract from them and claim damages for their negligence and bad moral. The technology to build a sea defence it is not godly anymore, to also help to claim compensation for the slavery time when millions of people from the Gambia and other African countries were chained by the neck, feet and hands, tortured, beaten, raped and killed. They were deprived from their human right and their motherland. Children were forfeited from their mother's breast and even they were transported alone. The sea erosion is threatening the city of Banjul and the capital is sinking. If we do not move quickly to lay out proper sea defence and new pumping stations with super hydraulic pumping system and rehabilitate the canals in the Bond Road and Tandba and we are sleeping we will wake up in a catastrophe channel. Many of us think that the catastrophe is between the old cemetery and the cemetery near mile 2 but the catastrophe side is not only there but also around Wadner Beach, Denton bridge, Senegambia Hotel. In the Banjul area it is behind the Albert market, Barra terminal, marine department, Bond road and the pumping station. There the water will pass through and float five meters or more into Banjul city and there will be catastrophe for the Banjul inhabitants, houses will sink, roads cut off, no transportation to carry anybody and the Gambia river will float into Banjul city and crocodiles and alligators will also float into Banjul city whilst the Bond Road is cut off and the pumping station out of function, the main road to go out of Banjul will be disappeared. That is what the contractors of the sea defence are waiting for so that the hypocritical merciless world will give billions of blood money to secure the capital of the Gambia, Banjul, whilst it is too late, but the contractors will involve with all their hypocritical methods and satanic scientific advises and engineering know how.

 In 1959 I passed through the government wharf to Sierra Leone with "MV Apapa" which could be more than 30.000 tons weight, depth of 25-30 m, then the wharf was very deep, today the local canoes from behind the Albert market and the transportation from overside are docking there. If we do not make quick move soon there will be no capital. That is what the so called companies or organisations in charge of the sea defence are waiting for, they are waiting until we have the horrible catastrophe that the sea water from the Atlantic ocean will invade the capital, the Gambia river also will invade so it will be very late for the most genius technology to save us. These people are criminals and they are supported by some Gambian intellectual handicaps because of a corruption that the Gambian intellectual handicaps are gaining few dalasis into their pockets and they signed the contracts. If this contract could have been given to the Swedish people it could have been a better solution to save our country from sea erosion. I, Ebrima Lamin George, have the best solution for the past thirty years I have been surveying the Tandba, the Bond Road, Half Die, from Barra terminal to government wharf and the old cemetery towards Wadner Beach, Denton bridge and behind Senegambia and Brufut. What I have seen is so frightening and sad, I have contacted some Swedish authorities and experts for the past thirty years that I live in Sweden with hundreds of hundreds of photos from the Gambia, my colleagues were so impressed and could not wait for one day to start the project with sea defence in the Gambia. The project was to set up architectural drawings, rehabilitation of the canals and the pumping station, buildings in the Tandba, rehabilitation of the Denton bridge and a new pumping station there, also three super hydraulic pumping stations in Banjul city. I have all the factors to prove but I will wait until my Gambian fellows are serious about what I am talking about. I have given the architectural drawings to mayor Samba Fall for nearly two years and he never did anything about it, with all the promises he gave me that he will make appointment to see the president, he never did until I took back my architectural drawings from him and a godly man Mr Cherno Barry at Bogal help me through his contacts to see the president after four years of struggle. I also met the Minister of Trade and Mr Yankuba Touray Minister of Youth and Sports. They all know about my ideas. When I met the president he was just a normal human being and very friendly who liked to discuss about development. As I am no politician but only a well talented artist and highly concerned about my homeland, me and the president came to a mutual understanding and he showed a kindness and gratefulness and gave me a warm welcome. I promised him that I will do all what I can to go on with the Vision 2020. All advanced countries have had visions. Our Vision 2020 can only succeed if the president has established a special office for it with highly intelligent people and diplomats and also engineers who are ready to discuss with anybody who has a project. There are many Gambians in the Diaspora who are highly talented and have political objectives and also are patriotic. If these people can be found and appointed for the Vision 2020 then Vision 2020 will succeed 100 %. Otherwise the Ministry of Trade will fail to implement Vision 2020. Banjul city is the most backward capital in all the region with all efforts that president Jammeh is doing it is not enough. The scrapyard of Banjul started from the colonial days to Sir Dawda Jawara so therefore president Yahya Jammeh's efforts come too late.
The Vision 2020 of the Gambia seems to be not so recognised by the Gambian inhabitants or foreigners because of political phenomenon or individual jealousy or tribalism hatred or intellectual handicap which means those who believe that they have education to the limit of their backbones, they never subscribed for the death of their grandmother which means if Gambia is their homeland they shall never contribute to defend when it is sinking. Visit the graveyards where you can see skeletons from the broken graves. The mosquito industries and wild dogs are in the Tandba and deadly pollution have ruined all environmental life and also supplying bad air which create many sicknesses in the city. People are suffering from malaria, TBC, meningitis, cancer, chronic headache etc.

Islamic saying from the Hadith :
"Fawailul lil musallin.
Alladhina hum 'an salatihim sahun.
Alladhina hum yura'wun,
wayamna'unal ma'un"
Woe to those who pray
(with their lips shouting for others to hear that they are praying)
but are heedless of their prayers;
who put on a show of piety
but refuse to give even the smallest help to others.

Any hypocrite who feels negative about my good speculations be my guest. I fear neither hardship or death. I am not a politician but a genious in art.


Prince Alhadji Ebrima Lamin George MamBeram

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