KB,
 As Pa Dacosta would say, "Tasa-reh Nga Yah-yi" (translates-  you've shattered all the bones into bits and pieces). I admire your clairvoyance.
Keep it coming..

Dampha Kebba  wrote:

It is hard to imagine how some people will happily enslave
>themselves because of some lousy job that allows them to travel a few weeks
>in the year and earn per diem. Some of these ‘top civil servants’ and
>‘seemingly sophisticated Gambians’ are the worst nightmare for the country.
>I dare say that they do the country more of a disservice than Yaya.
>
>They cook up the most vicious LIES. Make the most ludicrous arguments. Try
>to rationalize the most indefensible positions. All for what? To propagate
>mediocrity in the society so that they can keep their lousy jobs. They are
>the ones that facilitate Yaya’s transfers of millions of dollars from
>government coffers. They are the ones that draft and defend draconian
>Decrees in parliament and in courts. They are the ones that drag cases for
>the government when the government wants to railroad innocent citizens like
>Dumo. They are the ones that peddle the ‘benefits’ of a bogus commission of
>inquiry in order to cover up the heinous massacre of our children on April
>10 and 11, 2000. They are the ones that when they see Yaya owning a PRIVATE
>plane, they pretend that this is not going on in the country. God help us
>from these despicable folks living in denial.
>
>The biggest fraud they mete against gullible Gambians both at home and in
>the Diaspora is this ‘Development Myth’. These morons went and saddled our
>country with the biggest loans you can imagine; and what can they show for
>it? Our people are POORER than they were before the loans came in. Does this
>make sense? But then you have the ‘elite’ pretending that AFPRC/APRC and the
>loans are the best thing that can happen to our country. Now that people are
>beginning to pin them down on this ‘myth’, you will hear all sorts of goofy
>stories. The bottom-line is that the AFPRC/APRC record on ‘development’ (NOT
>mentioning their other abuses) is indefensible. They have taken our people
>BACKWARDS and there is worse to come. Simply put, the morons do NOT have the
>wherewithal to uplift a country in such a deplorable state as Gambia.
>
>The person that gave you the ‘salt story’ conveniently ignores that within
>six months in power Yaya stole from the country more than it would take to
>buy generators to electrify the entire country. No! they do NOT want to hear
>that. They would rather enslave themselves and tell you a story that would
>leave you thinking whether this man was an inmate in Campama. Yes! They
>would prefer to look insane to you than tell the truth and make Yaya look
>bad. See what some of the vermin have reduced themselves to? They would
>rather tell you that a road that does NOT exist in the country is in the
>country and make you think that they are incorrigible liars. Yes! They would
>prefer to tell a blatant lie to make Yaya look good than safeguard their
>integrity. It is simply pathetic.
>
>Grown men emasculated to the extent that they would see nothing wrong in the
>massacre of defenseless children as young as three. To them, the massacre is
>justified because it ensures that Yaya remains in power because in their
>sick minds Yaya is the only person that can develop the country. Does this
>make any sense? As evinced by the sycophancy of people like Buba Baldeh and
>Fatoumatta Jahumpa, these were the very people that used to feed Gambians
>the garbage that without Jawara the country is doomed. Now, these very
>people are saying that they are happy Jawara was ousted and God sent us a
>High School dropout to replace the ‘indispensable Jawara’. They pretend to
>forget how invincible Jawara was to them some short seven years ago. I can
>guarantee you that the same bandwagons would be at the foothills of the next
>president singing the same nauseating songs. The common traits among these
>people are sycophancy, fear and vindictiveness.
>
>Some are just pure sycophants. They will sing anybody’s praises if they
>believe they can get something valuable in return. They will jettison
>principles in a heartbeat and tell the goofiest and most outrageous stories.
>Some are in this despicable game out of fear. They know more than anyone
>else that Yaya is a brutal dictator. Though they will never admit that in
>public, that is the driving force behind every vicious lie they tell to
>exaggerate the AFPRC/APRC record in order to make Yaya look good. Others are
>in this because they despised the old regime so much that they are willing
>to tolerate someone that would massacre innocent Gambians so long as the
>‘old order’ does not return and deprive them some of their newfound
>‘privileges’. Whichever way you slice it, we are dealing with slimy people
>that vigorously fight for their vested interests but would never admit their
>selfish motives. Instead, they would be pretending to be doing the masses a
>favor by supporting the Dictatorship. Just take SM Dibba for instance. To be
>Speaker in parliament, the man is prepared to hug people he called murderers
>and thieves few months ago. Dibba is prepared to ‘forget’ all he ever stood
>for. He is prepared to dismantle his own party he worked for during the
>better part of his life. All for what? To be called a Speaker in the most
>undemocratic parliament in the entire world. He is doing this so that he can
>be given an ‘official vehicle’ to ride around town. Talking about these
>people would make you want to puke. But let us stay tuned for the biggest
>‘Jamfa’ of all: ‘The Jawara Jamfa’. If this man comes to the country and
>start exaggerating about the ‘great development myth’ (the UNFINISHED roads,
>schools WITHOUT DESKS and CHAIRS and hospitals WITHOUT DOCTORS and
>MEDICINE), then it would be time to start rounding up these sycophants and
>institutionalizing them.
>
>Thanks again, George. I hope all goes well for you and you are able to
>continue your invaluable contributions to the society. Just hitting the
>conscience of the vermin goes a long way towards bringing back sanity to the
>country.
>KB
>
>
>>From: george sarr <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: The reality in The Gambia today.
>>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:18:52 -0400
>>
>>KB,
>I ask this puppeteer; whatever happens to Jammeh's promise of electrifying
>the entire nation before the 2001 elections? Remember how we all saw Jammeh
>and his entourage drivng from Stink Corner all the way to Fatoto showing
>everyone our newly arrived generators and how the crowd fell for it? Well,
>you know the answer I got from this sycophant? You don't wanna know. Are you
>sure folks? Ok , I'll spit it out. The moron told me someone added SALT in
>the generators to sabortage the mission. Bilai Walai Talai, I am NOT making
>this up folks. S-A-L-T ! The funnier part was he too vigorously insisted
>that he wasn't making it up either. Can anyone find a grain of SALT in this
>bogus story? Assuming this actually took place and that some oppositon thug
>vandalized our newly arrived generators; wouldn't it be more appropriate as
>common sense would dictate that a generator causing gambian tax-payers
>god-knows-what would have some kind of INSURANCE ( you know , insuring
>something valuable- duh). This is pathetic. I got up and left. May God bless
>The Gambia.
>>
>
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