WOW! Mr Boto Jaiteh I think you ought to try another strategy but this one
"Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara The Pragmatic Leader!" does not work. More than
90% of all the respondents to your topic are against you.  I believe only
one sister supports you.  Most of these people including myself do not
dislike Jawara but most of what you said about him and his Government is
just not right.  Do not try to fool anyone.  I also think we would be wrong
to blame Jawara for all the mess that took place during his 30 years in
power.  Howabout some of his ministers and top Government officials.
Remember he wanted to step down and these people were crying and begging him
not to. The damage these people  caused to the Gambian people is enormous.
         Mr Boto Jaiteh come out of the dark and explain your case again.
            Thanks
Alfusainey Bah


>From: Ousman Bojang <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Boto Jaiteh: Re: Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara the Pragmatic
>       Leader!
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:20:41 EST
>
>Saul,
>You already said almost everything I need to say. The only difference we
>have
>is that I would rather take Jammeh over Jawara for what ever reason do not
>ask.
>What Boto Jaiteh fail to understand is that we are undergoing all these
>things he mentioned because of what Jawara seeded. It is just time to
>cultivate.
>All the intellectual Jaiteh mentioned including we the young ones who all
>have to flee the country for a mere education above high school, Jawara owe
>us an explanation. In the jawara ere after 30 years of ruling, for a
>Gambian
>to have a good Teacher Certificate one has to go to a foreign land? After
>30
>years of independence the Gambia relied on the food coming through the
>River
>by ships.
>Mr. Jaiteh, I must tell you under jawara some of us did suffer too. It is
>logical to me to hear that Jawara was such a good guy when in Form Three in
>high school I had to be smuggled by the CIDs just from class and
>interrogated
>without my parents consent and detained for over 24hrs. How much sense
>would
>it make to any one whose 80 year old uncle had to die a day after two years
>of detention without a trial? How does it feel when one's father had to be
>put behind bars for over two years without a charge and even denied a
>family
>visitation? How does it feel when one has to be called for an interview at
>the President's office and as a Gambian citizen be denied a job for your
>parents are oppositions?
>I am sure Jaiteh might not have an answer for me but I bet jawara will. So
>Mr. Jaiteh the old man has a lot to answer to.
>You mentioned the so called free education we had when we had to buy our
>own
>books and furniture to go to school. Some even had to build their own
>buildings in the provinces. Now tell me where is the free education is.
>Remember our parents were paying taxes to get the teachers paid.
>And telling us that the Gambia had a better medical program is not true
>either. Do you know that in the time of Jawara some people who were
>privileged go to abroad for medical treatments others were dying from at
>the
>tax payers cost? And yes it is cheaper to see a dentist or a dermatologist
>in
>the Gambia then, but it still is. Being a medical care giver at the moment
>and daily dealing wit Insurance companies on the new PPS and Medicare
>meetings on daily bases, I can tell you that it is unreasonably expensive,
>but you get what you pay for. The US health care system sucks compared to
>the
>whole world but it has one of the best preventable measures.
>So Mr. Jaiteh people like you need to write to Jawara and ask him some of
>these questions before telling us that he is a better leader than dictator
>Jemus. Jammeh is more than dictator, but we have to go through him before
>getting to a better leader other the two and looking at the leading
>oppositions toady, the future looks very deem. Tell me why would I support
>an
>opposition leader who will run to seek refuge before results are counted. I
>think the UDP are better off with Lamin Juwara leading than giving another
>chance to Darboe. He is such an educated person but it does not make one a
>good leader.
>
>Ousman Bojang.
>
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