culled from the Daily Observer.

Friday, May 25, 2001
JAMMEH CLOCKS 36

President Yahya Jammeh is today marking his 36th birthday anniversary with
what Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, State House director of press and public
relations, described as "gifts to the nation." The gifts, according to her,
include the launch of GSM phones and the inauguration of Jammeh's
presidential election campaign website at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, two
iceplants at Tanji and a Jammeh Foundation-sponsored hospital at Bundung.
"At 36, the president is very healthy, looks younger and is more prepared to
serve his nation," Mrs Ceesay posited.

She went ahead to enumerate what she said, were the laudable achievements of
President Jammeh since his military take over in 1994, which included
infrastructural development across the country, increase in the level of
women participation in governance as well as girl-child school enrolment,
provision of tractors and milling machines to rural farmers, provision of
scholarships to Gambians and the establishment of the University of The
Gambia. On the health sector, Mrs Ceesay said the country now had more
doctors and health facilities all aimed at improving the health of Gambians.

Asked to comment on the administration's human rights record, she said the
country now had more newspapers and radio stations than in the previous
regime, and that there has been freedom of expression and political
association. This, according to her, was one of the reasons why the
president had received many international accolades. Mrs Ceesay noted that
President Jammeh had also left an indelible mark in the international
community with his peace initiatives in Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, between
Senegal and Mauritania as well as between Libya and the Western world. She
therefore called on all Gambians to reciprocate the president's gestures by
giving him a landslide victory in the October presidential polls "so that he
can continue the good work he has been doing for the Gambian nation."

Have a good day and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.



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