Hi Mr. Jallow!
                        The L, like any other forum, is a forum for discussion. Anyone who posts anything is inviting critique, criticism, praise or whatever from the over 600 subscribers. If anyone takes a strong stance on a certain issue and changes it, anyone of the over 600 subscribers has a right to put in a question if he / she feels that one's actions or words constitute a departure from what one has written earlier. The person concerned also has a right to answer or not. You have took a pretty strong stance on the issue of Jammeh, AFPRC, APRC and its members here on the L to the point of accusing some of murder and other serious crimes. Then you apologised to Jammeh. Human nature dictates that your readers would be surprised and some would even start speculating. The readership exercised its right to ask you the reason for the departure from your previous position. You exercised your right not to respond. A deadlock was created. I saw the futility of the approach being used, i.e., trying to force you or make you answer what you don't want to. That is why I chipped in to advise all to dialogue instead of getting personal and using an approach that is self-defeating. I respect your right to choose who to apologise to or not for whatever and also your right to either respond or not given that it was as you said, a personal apology between you and Jammeh. I also respect the right of those who feel they need to question you on your departure from your previous position given that they have spent some resources such as time, electricity, money etc. in reading your posts. This is my position on the issue of your personal apology to Jammeh.
    On the issue of the money you are accused of taking, I am neither competent nor in a position to put you on trial for that. I do not have facts on this issue. All I have is hearsay and even there, it is incomplete. I don't even know where the money issue stands at present. I have read here people saying that the money was returned to the Government and it was deposited in the Central Bank yet people are still asking you to return the money. I don't know which is which. It would therefore, be unfair for me to judge you on this issue. That is why I have not commented for or against you in this regard. I realise that your right not to incriminate yourself given that you may some day be put on trial for charges relating to the money. When that day arrives, people who are competent and in possession of facts relating to this whole episode will judge you and you can present your side of the story there. Thanks and have a good weekend.
                                
    BTW, who are my "buddies"?

                                                                                                                                       Buharry.

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