Brothers Barrow and Hamjatta,

I was not surprised that you would auto-detect the hocus-pocus of jobe's
attempts to tender praises for your observations on udp. You responses were
fitting and profound. This is the spirit behind any commitment to a just
cause which defines one's identity and principles; only then can one detect
the true intentions behind all forms of empty gestures originating  from
other dominions of opposing orientations.

These people continue to persist in the fatuous belief that they can use
disguise chicanery to build links where these are impossible. In so doing
they also persist in their failure to understand that through their conduct
they have created an insularity inhabited only by themselves and their
kindred. What i am saying is that these people and the people in the
opposition live in different worlds; ours is one of justice, decency and the
pursuit of the full potential of Gambians as a people; theirs is not only
inimical to all those lofty ideals, but it epitomizes evil and degeneration.
These two camps cannot therefore share pleasantries such as praises. As
brother Hamjatta put it, the intention behind his and brother Barrow's
observations cannot be the same as those of the jobes. The opposition is an
open system that allows self-criticism; and when it finds itself in
government that self-criticism and indeed criticisms external to it would be
standard  practice, a basic democratic principle that has been eroded under
yaya jammeh's misrule.

Hamjatta, thanks for your final observation on jobe's lame "justification"
for not supporting udp. That posting from jobe further confirms the
monumental self-delusion he is engaged in. If he thinks that his long empty
narrative has made any sense to us on this forum, he would be making a big
mistake. He is supporting a regime and a party (no difference!) that has
brought and continues to bring chaos and havoc to our country, and yet he
uses the "chaos" argument against supporting the udp. The leadership of udp
(like those of the other opposition parties) is a cultured and educated lot
totally incapable of unleashing brutality on their own people as jammeh and
his people are doing. Drboe and jammeh cannot be compared,  by any
yardstick. Little wonder, therefore, did one see in jobe's narrative any
substance about the quality of the men who today are said to be "running"
the affairs of the Republic of the Gambia.

AT



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