Sister

I love this one:

   As to why people do not vote for the politicians who clearly have the
>interest of the people at heart? I sometimes wonder if we do not secretly
>like the
>condition that these corrupt leaders inflict upon us, or maybe we have come
>to
>the conclusion that tyranny and corruption are the norm in leadership since
>we
>have witnessed nothing different since the advent of our so-called
>Independence from our colonizers.

I came to this conclusion that the ordinary Gambians,for that matter the
Africans,did realized that going to vote is a private issue and not a
national issue,it has northing to do with the improvement of their lives.No
one put this into them,it is from practical experience.They sacrificed
everything in the fight against colonialism,they voted and voted and
voted,today a great number of them could not even provide enough food for
their donkeys.And yet we blame them for been fools for not voting right.Why
should they say no to D10 and vote for me,when they know that I am going to
Banjul to receive a fat salary,many times more than what a great majority of
them earn for the whole year.They say it to all of us "You the educated
elites you are all the same"They have no reason to trust us.The Independent
Newspaper published it here too.After the election they asked a market woman
what she thought of the voting.She reply to say that ,She was sitting here
selling before the voting and she came back to the same place after the
voting.What this woman is saying in my opinion is that it is not the voting
she when to perform that will change her life,she did it before.The job is
to build  trust and building the trust between the politicians and the
Gambian people is the responsibility of all of us and not only the
politicians.This is why I believed it is also our right to know what all the
politicians are thinking,it will only be for the better.

For Freedom
Saiks


>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: SV: Fw: Thousands March/ Peter
>Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:40:52 EST
>
>Peter,
>
>That's precisely the point. We cannot trade one monster for another and
>everyone claims the grass is greener on their side, but unless and until we
>insist
>on leaders with an impeccable character and who will not turn into
>revengeful
>monsters and proceed to plan to stay forever surrounded by parasites whose
>only prupose is self interest, and which results in all sorts of abuses and
>human
>rights violations, we are fooling ourselves.
>I relay stories of my experience during the Jawara era, not altogether
>non-cognisant of those who are trying to focus the attention away from the
>ever
>worsening disastrous record of the APRC regime, but to condemn all inept
>leadership that we have been plagued with in the past and continue to be
>plague with
>now, and will be plagued with in the future if we do not cease and desist
>from
>enabling tyrants and attmpting to cover up for them just so we can get a
>piece
>of their looting of the people's meager resources.
>As to why people do not vote for the politicians who clearly have the
>interest of the people at heart? I sometimes wonder if we do not secretly
>like the
>condition that these corrupt leaders inflict upon us, or maybe we have come
>to
>the conclusion that tyranny and corruption are the norm in leadership since
>we
>have witnessed nothing different since the advent of our so-called
>Independence from our colonizers. Every day, one sees able bodied,
>intellingent people of
>supposedly sound mind trying to explain away the unexplainable in relation
>to
>these leaders who by anyones' definition, are simply engaged in everything
>other than the kind of activities and posses the kinds of character traits
>that
>leadership calls for. It  sometimes makes me wonder if right and wrong had
>switched places in our society while no one was looking or something.  That
>is
>one that I puzzle over all the time.
>By the way, my name is Jabou.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>
>
>In a message dated 11/16/03 12:09:06 PM Central Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > Dear Jahou,
> >
> > You are a courageous woman for exposing the evils that were meted to you
> > during the previous regime ( e.g. passport case). Sometimes i come close
>to a
> > point of sympathising with Jammeh and then make a U-turn again. Jammeh
>like all
> > of us was in the Gambia during Jawara's regime and perhaps, closer to
>the pa
> > more than many of us. He knows why he staged his coup. Good reasons by
>the
> > way!
> >
> > However, he quickly demonised these very genuine reasons into a campaign
>of
> > terror, intolerance and elimination. This ranks him no one evil man.
>These
> > are evils that are making some people to hail Jawara and his gang of
>crooks
> > (read Sana Manneh's Cases. Also errand boy sanneh who told Alghali
>commission
> > that he fulls tax payers money in a big bag for distribution. this is
>from the
> > horse's mouth) as angels. This is a wrong signal As far as i am concern,
>a
> > criminal is a criminal and should not at any point be made to feel other
>wise.
> > By so doing, we will never give credit to hard core bandits of the 90s
>to
> > look like heros.
> >
> > I bet all of you that some of the people making noise in the Gambia
>today,
> > would become worse than Jammeh if they assume power. Their records have
>shown
> > that their tempers were hotter that that of Jammeh. They have never been
> > trained as soldiers, but they can slap and kick anybody anytime. And we
>want to
> > make these people saints today.
> >
> > Please, lets not betray our conscience. Lets be honest with ourselves.
>Lets
> > read the profiles of all the candidates and i don't need to tell you the
> > candidate with a clean profile. Let us not support people because we
>need to set
> > a thief to catch a thief. this will prove disasterous in the long run.
> >
> > I remind you again, you cannot trade a monster for a monster.
> >
> > PG
> >
> >
> >
>
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