These comments about the Badibunkas and Mandingos are quite disturbing to
me.  At a time when we're calling on one another to be one Gambia, one
people, **s ****s like this man are setting tones that are very
dissappointing.  We are all free to come and express our views here, but
must be cautious about what we say, and how it is said.  I think it's sad
for anyone  to think that candidates are selected base on the language they
speak. We all call Gambia home and each and everyone of us has got the right
to be a candidate so long he's got a strong agenda to campaign on.
Just because you don't like sawo, does not mean you should take that ugly
stand against those people.  Besides, no one need to educate them on how to
cast their votes, or select their representatives. The only thing one need
to do is to present them with his/her reasons of being a candidate.  If it
sounds compelling to them, you'll be lucky otherwise you will be history.
So uncle ahmad, or whatever the hell your name is, try to refrain from
comments like this, because we dont have a place for that now.  We have to
come together as a nation with one loving voice not divided with bitterness.

Thanx

LAMIN
>From: Lamine Conteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: WHAT???????? SAHO WHO?????????
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:23:11 -0500
>
>Comrades:
>
>Please educate me on the Saho issue.  Is it true that he will be the APRC
>candidate for the bi-elections in Central Badibu?  If that is the case,
>then
>the ban on former Jawara ministers from participating in any electoral
>process is null and void.
>
>I am appealing to SM Dibba to come out clean and challenge this.  Mr.
>Dibba,
>please speak now.  You have been quiet for a long time.  Mr. Dibba,
>dictator
>yahya cannot do a damn thing to you if you decide to run.  If the so-called
>"Dr." Saho can run, then I do not see a reason why you cannot.  The Badibu
>people will never yield an embarassing statement to the UDP.  The APRC will
>be disappointed.  "Dr." Saho will be defeated.  Badibu will forever be
>strong.
>
>On the issue of tribalism, I am disappointed that Mr. Ahmed would
>generalized tribal sentiment that all Mandinkas care about what language
>one
>speaks as a prerequisite to join a kabilo. Historically, a kabilo consists
>of few compounds, either by marriage or parental linkage.  A Kabilo also
>consists of "luntans" within the community, and some of them might speak
>different languages.  It is appropriate to do further research before one
>writes sensitive issues, especially from a cultural view point.
>
>Please let us remain one Gambia. Tribalism has no place in our politics.
>
>Naphiyo,
>
>Comrade M. Lamine Jassey-Conteh
>--Original Message------
>From: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: February 7, 2001 8:40:23 PM GMT
>Subject: WHAT???????? SAHO WHO?????????
>
>
>Its not a suprise to me or anyone to hear news of such retro-develomental
>recycling of "knighted" socio-economic "gang bangers" back and forth from
>our so-called government of the Gambia. To me it is a sad thing that we
>Gambians most notably our poor rural population, have to sit back and get
>"Bambuzulled" by the likes of Dr Saho over and over again because, we
>cannot
>seperate politics from tribalism. Simply put I think Gambians, especially
>the "Mandingos" are more concerned in what tribe or "Kaabiloo" the
>candidate
>came from rather than his potential for regional developement.If what is
>rumoured, is actually flying and Saho is actually "hot" for APRC's( Anti
>Prosperity Reenactement Cohort as I call them,)potential pick for the
>By-elections, I think its the duty of every educated Gambian to campaigne
>and educate our rural "Badibunkas" that it is a humanitarian right to have
>a
>"Funtional" advocate in the House of Palliament who will not just be a
>"seat
>warmer",and a vulture waiting to scavenge at any potentially corruptable
>loophole,  but actually work hard to improve the livelyhood of his people
>he
>vowed to represent. Looking back at his track record, I can't even see
>APRC,
>as "DUMB" as they have been over the past years, for lack of a better word,
>could even consider him fit to be invited over as one of their party's
>"Hentchmen". Maybe because they're soo low in "BRAINS" that they would pick
>any psychotic with even the faintest neural activity in the their brain,
>since they've gone through almost every "DICK" in town who knows how to
>write his or name.
>The political situation in the Gambian is soo F$@%K*! that I can't even
>put it in a sensible propective. Sitting here and reading the "L" and some
>of the things that people write about, gives the me feeling that there is a
>generall lack of appreciation of how SH$%%Y things are back home as result
>of the present government.Maybe people do not care or are so used to life
>being so hard that it became accepetable standard of living. Come to think
>of it now, Dr Saho's cross carpetting to APRC and his potential selection
>and/or probable win, is just a minor SH&^%T of the bigger SH**T thats is
>going on down there right now, economically, Socially
>and politically. I think we Gambians need to redirect our focus on the
>state
>of affaires back home and maybe come up with a more deliberate solution to
>the problem before it escalates to catastrophy. This I am positive will
>happen with the way things are going, its just a matter of time and
>oppotunity. The immidiacy of the situation calls for aggressive measures,
>and by this I don't mean killing each other, but I think we can focus the
>WORLD'S lenses on us ....
>
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