Readers:

As usual, the unedited e-mail below came from a State House insider.

Ebrima

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Government vehicles converted to Private ownership
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003
>
>Coach,
>
>Yahya Jammeh has now answered those critical of his government's
>unquenching thirst for big, fast and expensive cars: REGISTER THEM PRIVATE.
>Yes, most government vehicles purchased in the last couple of years have
>been registered as private vehicles in the name of the user with the
>exception of vehicles purchased using donor funds.  So this way, it will be
>almost impossible to distinguish the private from the public property. Our
>taxes are being used to purchase assets rightfully belonging to us. When
>the official is fired, the car is either recovered and allocated to a
>sycophant, or retained by the officer if he/she is considered a friend of
>the government. Many government vehicles have been sold, because they have
>been registered as private vehicles in the name of army officers, senior
>civil servants or ordinary NIA goons. Another criminal act of a desperate
>government that is about to fall.
>I PLAN TO COMPILE A 'LIST OF SHAME' COMPRISING THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE
>OFFICIALS CURRENTLY RUNNING AROUND TOWN IN VEHICLES UNDER THIS CATEGORY.
>WATCH THIS SPACE.


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