>From: panderry mbai <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: WHAT HAPPEN TO APRC'S "JALI TOURAY"? MORE QUESTIONS THAN
>ANSWERS!!!!!
>Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:43:57 +0100 (BST)
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> BY PA NDERRY M'BAI
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> It appears that the newly reinstated agriculture minister Yankuba Touray
>is no longer speaking out as he used to do few years ago. Does Yanks
>suspect that change is inevitable in The Gambia and is therefore playing it
>safe not to allow to be used again by Yahya Jammeh. If that is the case
>then, Yankuba had indeed learnt a lot from his brief separation with
>dictator Yahya Jammeh. Touray is very cautious these days in the way and
>manner he deals with Jammeh. What happen to his Observer news headlines?
>What happen to his mobilisation campaigns?
>
>Reading a local paper in The Gambia, it appears that Yanks was rehired
>without formal consultations. He was just telephoned by the "Kanilai so
>called Mansa" to resume work. This goes to show that our country is in
>wrong hands. That the affairs of the state can be decided by one man
>without heeding to his advisers. I even doubt if Jammeh have advisers in
>view of his unconstitutional moves.
>
> We are in serious, serious troubles. That our nation is being misruled
>by a person who does not have The country's interest at heart. If true
>that Jammeh is patriotic as he called himself, why is he employing divide
>and rule politics in The Gambia.? Why is Jammeh using some of our
>"misguided" soldiers to create harm and mayhem in The Gambia.? Why
>training our sons and daughters in Libya to receive military training
>knowing fully well that Gambians are not interested in war.
>
>The future of The Gambia is indeed bleak. Our senior citizens should not
>watch by and see cherished peace being upset. There are sufficient
>evidence on the ground to suggest that The Gambia is not moving into the
>right direction.
>
>We should learn from war ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other
>countries within the African Sub-region. These countries used to enjoy
>peace like The Gambia. But what happened later? Greed, corruption,
>nepotism and unfinished oppression compelled citizens to take arms against
>their own elected government. Taking arms against a democratically
>elected government is not the solution to the continent's current
>predicaments. But people engaged in such moves say they cannot withstand
>the oppression and tyranny in their respective countries. Guess what?
>They took to the streets and bush to ask their governments to step down.
>In the process thousands died, maimed and displaced.
>
>Church and Muslim leaders in The Gambia, have a big challenge and
>responsibility. They should depart from the culture of silence and speak
>out against the dictatorial regime of Yahya Jammeh. They should use
>their mosque and churches to preach the need for the government to respect
>the rights and freedoms of citizens. They should also try and bring
>sense of sanity into power "drunken" Yahya Jammeh who is bent on showing
>seeds of discord in the tiny West African country.
>
>Already, Kanifing Imam Baba Leigh and Father Cleary are taking the lead.
>We need more religious leaders in this crusade.
>
>It's unfortunate that the majority leader of the National Assembly
>Churchill Baldeh is trying to frustrate efforts made by Baba Leigh for the
>need to maintain peace in The Gambia. Churchill in his interview with the
>Daily Observer, tried to portray the Gambia as a peaceful nation. He
>dismissed Imam's Leigh call and said"there is no problem in The Gambia".
>Churchill is this really true? Are you not trying to play with the minds
>of the right thinking members of Gambia's society? Are you not economical
>with the truth by trying down play the current state of affairs in the
>impoverished nation?
>
>Indeed, The Gambia is at war. War in the sense that people are longer at
>peace. They have been reduced to economic destitutes. Their freedom to
>free speech is also seized by Yahya. Their right to support the political
>party of their choice is also sized by Yahya. How many times, have this
>regime fired people believed to be opposition sympathisers? The National
>Assembly, you are heading is also reduced to a rubber stamp National
>Assembly. Your APRC NAM members cannot figure out what's in the National
>interest and what's not. They welcome any bill that comes before the house,
>be it good or bad. They gave Yahya and his security agencies blanket
>immunity when the Assembly voted in favour of the draconian indemnity Act.
>Now our military can kill Gambians without worrying about any court action.
> That the state had issued them license to kill with impunity. You also
>championed the need to curtail free press in The Gambia by voting the
>widely criticised Media Commission
> Act. Now the courts can sentence libel and defamation first offender
>journalists between six months and three years in jail with hard labour
>respectively. And how about the recent expulsion of opposition NAM
>members? All these crisis taking place in The Gambia and yet Churchill
>Baldeh you is saying that there is no problem in The Gambia. You must be
>kidding, Mr.majority leader. Dishonest politicians like your type are
>undermining the peace and stability of The Gambia. You are not only doing
>disservice to our country but to the future generation.
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