Saul,
Thanks for your well calculated and timely response to our
friend's(Boto) posting on the achievments of the Jawara's regime.I think
brother Boto missed the entire equation of the then PPP government.My mind
never labour that a Gambian would ever attribute such positive achievments
to the PPP regime.Did brother Boto did his schooling in the Gambia?I doubt
it!A Government that can not even provide its citizens with a university,a
hospital and enough primary and secondary schools not to talk of
scholarships does not deverse even an atom of credit. When I was preparing
for my "A" level my friends and I used to pray very hard that ALLAH will
enable us to secure scholarship.In the former regime one needs to be
connected to get a scholarship.Poor guys like us never think that we shall
have the opportunity to study in a university.But thanks to the new regime
these old folks who used to favour their cronies have waken up now.Thanks to
the new regime!Also well before I received my "A" level friend's father once
asked me whether I have any crony to help me secure a job.This was shortly
before July 22,1994.Thanks to the new regime again becase I secured a job
without the help any crony.It was my papers that speaks for me.
Please GAMBIA-L members let us wake up now.
>From: saul khan <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Boto Jaiteh: Re: Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara the Pragmatic Leader!
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:24:33 GMT
>
>Boto,
>
>I agree with you on the evils of the Jammeh regime, but you're being
>totally
>economical with the truth on almost everything else. If Jawara's Gambia was
>so good, why did we all leave? There are many who say the type of things
>you're saying here, who left white-colar jobs in the Gambia to come and
>filp
>burgers here in the West for a living. Why? All the smart people you've
>listed have one thing in common: they all got educated outside the Gambia!
>If Jawara was so good, how come Yaya Jammeh built a university in six years
>when he failed to build one in almost thirty years? How about all the
>much-needed secondary schools built since 1994?(Contrary to your
>assertions,
>MOST Gambian children didn't have the opportunity to go to school. You
>better check the stats again.) How about the hospitals built since?
>
>Regarding provimcial schools getting free transports during vacations, you
>need to specify that only Armitage school had such privilege. It's not true
>that any other school had such luck. And to say/intimate that hospitals
>under Jawara were good is a crude joke. People were dying like flies of
>simple ailments all over the country. I can go on and on about your
>misrepresentation.
>
>But if you don't take anything from what I'm trying to say, take this much:
>neither Jawara nor Yaya is good for the Gambia. We deserve better than
>both.
>And you're not helping Gambians by falsely embellishing Jawara's record. We
>will never progress when all we do is to deceive each other with blatant
>lies. I can't stand Yaya Jammeh. Between Yaya's person and Jawara, I'll
>take
>Jawara. But we have other choices. Let's look at those. Why lie about a
>Jawara regime that never was? What are you trying to accomplish? Who are
>you
>trying to fool?
>
>We can only go forward when we put everything on the table, and establish
>the truth. People like yourself who obviously have a personal ax to grind,
>only discredit the genuine criticisms that many of us level at Yaya Jammeh.
>So, if you love the Gambia like I do, tell the truth no matter where it
>lies. Otherwise, get ready, because as long as I'm on this List, blatant
>lies like you're telling here will not go unchallenged. Don't you think our
>people have heard enough lies and seen enough hypocrisy already? Adhere to
>the truth, if you want any respect here. That's the name of the game, my
>friend!
>
>Sorry I got to break this to you. I just can't stand lies, and hypocrisy
>...
>
>Saul.
>
>
>>From: Boto Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara the Pragmatic Leader!
>>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:02:47 +0000
>>
>> >>> [log in to unmask] 02/09/00 11:21pm >>>
>>FELLOW GAMBIANS:
>>
>>The state of our nation, The Gambia, is deplorable. The Gambia is now a
>>
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