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Ebrima

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>Subject: The Problem With This Government is...A supplimentary rejoinder
>Date: Thu,
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>Ebrima,
>The POINT editorial needs a supplimentary rejoinder. The editorial has
>outline the foundamental problem of accountability of the Jammeh regime but
>fail to name names. Those who are charged with the responsibility of
>running the Departments of State, their Permanent Secretaries and the head
>of the Civil Service are the experts expected to meet the press and the
>general public to explain and respond to questions posed by the media.  But
>what do we get, a former airline ticket discounter trying to expalin the
>policies of the Jammeh regime.  What do you expect from such a woman who
>does not have the faintest idea of how a Government operates. She has never
>been a Civil Servant; never has the necessary experience expected of a
>person in her position; never has any form of training in the media (an
>accusation leveled against Fatoumatta Jahumpa by none other than Yahya
>Jammeh during his first press conference after illegally taking over power
>in 1994); never sat in a University class room much more obtain a degree or
>a diploma of any sort except, perhaps in ticketing from Gatwick airport.
>Only a sychophant can assume the role taken up by this lady without the
>prerequisites of the post. A professional without the qualification will
>never accept such a post.
>The other person who is in the thick of things is Saja who with ALL his PhD
>cannot respond to queries, questions on policies and programmes of the
>Government. The closest he came to being in a policy-related function was
>as Permanent Secretary, Education where he stayed for less than a year. He
>is also zilch, particularly when it comes to gambian politics. he does not
>have a constinuency, neither does he have a political base of his own to be
>able to calvanise his supporters to the APRC cause. Saja is not even known
>by the political operatives in Banjul much more in Sika,Nuimi. So why are
>these people paraded before the press and/or the people to explain why the
>groundnut crop has not been bought for two consecutive seasons. Neither
>Saja Taal nor Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay can explain what is actually going
>on in agriculture nor can they tell you how to fix the problem. They do not
>have the slightest clue. they are put up front because the Cabinet
>Minsiters, National security Council members are equally incompetent and/or
>unsure of the consequences of saying the wrong thing which will cause
>Yahya's ax to fall. For now, I am afraid, the press would have to put up
>with these empty-headed sychophants until a proper and respectable
>government is installed with competent, experienced and professional
>gambian men and women of the highest moral standing in their respective
>communities who the young ones can look up to. It will come, inshaallah, it
>will come.
>

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