Readers:

The unedited e-mail below came from a source in The Gambia.

Ebrima Ceesay
Dakar, Sénégal

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>Subject: 50 MILLION DALASI HQ FOR GAMBIA PORTS AUTHORITY
>Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003
>
>Hi Coach,
>
>Gambia Ports Authority Managing Director who was appointed less than six
>months ago has grander ideas than Yahya Jammeh.  He is planning to build a
>50 million dalasi Headquarters for GPA.  Can you imagine any body evening
>THINKING about such an expenditure when the revenue of the GPA is steadily
>eroding while these mental midgets are still thinking about such types of
>expenditure of PUBLIC FUNDS?  Well, we cannot say that Kebba Dampha did not
>warn us when he constantly remind us that the inmates are running the
>asylum.
>
>Please Mr. Managing Director, we demand that you withdraw your proposal.
>You cannot afford it, GPA cannot afford it and the Jammeh regime certainly
>cannot afford it. We have enough financial problems.  Let us see how we can
>improve ferry and other services.  In short let us concentrate on service
>delivery, productivity and a little bit of MODESTY.  BESIDES IT IS CRIMINAL
>TO SPEND THAT KIND OF MONEY WHEN FARMERS ARE STILL WAITING TO BE PAID FOR
>THEIR GROUNDNUT CROP OF LAST YEAR AND THE YEAR BEFORE THAT. How about
>facilitaing access to the non-Union Dock workers the one-by-six for the
>Tabaski instead of building a monstrosity of a building like that. Speak of
>Corruption.
>
>Ebrima, I believe these people are really trying to plunge the country
>further into a nightmarish hell hole.  We must stop them before it is too
>late


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