The Substance of Hope and Gambian Freedom
By Ebou Jallow, Former Spokesman AFPRC
  
Freedom is an inherently diverse concept which consists of not only human rights but also human capabilities.  In a developing country such as the Gambia, human capabilities exert a moral claim that trumps NADD's rhetoric of human rights.  Fomenting resentment by demagoguery is not the substance of hope but the evidence of desperation and degenerate immorality, and this is exactly what NADD is all about.  The existence of NADD as expressed in their MOU is a proposition whose argument is based on lame excuses for their collective poor performances in the last presidential elections, and nothing else but empty talk about rights. Contemporary international discourse has raised fundamental questions about both the legitimacy and coherence of human rights.  This is occasioned by what is deemed as a common understanding of two categories and three generations of human rights.  NADD is obviously interested in some very few conceptions of human rights i.e. the negative limitations of
 governance, and political rights.  Listening to them talk about human rights, democracy and governance is analogous to the proverbial five blind men describing an encounter with an elephant.  NADD has never given the Gambian electorate a heuristic picture of the state of human rights in the nation or what they can do for the Gambian people.  Instead they have consistently gone off tangent from important issues that matter to the existence of the Gambian citizens, ignored the imponderables of human action and thus made some serious misjudgments in their own futile attempts to forge a party. It is no surprise that they are currently enmeshed in a web of crisis with no end in sight.The fact is the inept constituent parties of the faction are unprincipled, polluted with political maneuvering and the opportunism of pooling votes; NADD operates just like a cartel in a free market economy: stifling competition and rigging the electoral marketplace to satisfy their greed for power;A
 multi-party electoral competition as articulated in the Gambian constitution offers choice between alternative platforms; and allows the public their inalienable right to 
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