Sidibeh,


Yes, I completely agree with you, the problem is that we seem to be beating 
a death horse. We don’t seem to be going anywhere with these negotiations 
and as I said before is time to cut our losses and move on. Maybe I am wrong 
or am not a very good negotiator but I would like to believe that we don’t 
have enough time. Maybe I expert too much but I strongly believe that if we 
are reading from the same page and we believe in the same thing, I don’t see 
what is stopping us in effecting change as one force. I also believe that 
this is the time for honest and hard dialogue to clear the air.

Just to take you a little back. When I went to Gambia late 2005, the 
enthusiasm, the energy people had, you can see the hope for change written 
in all their faces. The coalition was a relief for the people and they were 
so positive that Jammeh will go. Even the Jammeh camp new that they were in 
for a serious defeat.

Going back in February 2006 and back again in March your can see the 
disappointment in people. For me what was amazing at that time was that 
people were still willing and ready to vote for NADD with or without UND/NRP 
and I thought that was a moment to capitalize on and let go the death horse. 
Coming back seeing all these issues flying all over, it becomes worrying and 
I think of the people back home who are seating on the heat. I respect 
people who still believe they can pull the parties together, that is fine 
but we should not forget that election is SEPTEMBER 2006. I kept on telling 
friends and families  that come the time to vote and these people are not 
together please give your vote to NADD.

You can clearly see that Jammeh is taking advantage of the situation by 
moving the elections to September. Elections where suggested around 
October/November.
I still hope something will come out of this but for me the most important 
thing is to make sure that NADD is voted for. I am not a member of NADD but 
I believe the home situation needs to be rescued from another years of 
Jammeh in power.  Jammeh’s next term in Gambia will be a severe deteriotion 
of the situation at home.  This will mean starvation in Gambia and I guess 
we should start our humanitarian rescue plan for the country if Jammeh 
should extend his dictatorship for another term.

For me the AFPRC regime is a failed state and the people need to be rescued 
from them. A fail state where dictatorship and tyranny reigns, to gorge 
itself fat on the people, instead of catering for the people.  Gambia is 
raped by military plutocrat and hijacked by democratic pretenders. 
Corruption attends the lack, as the country feeds a growing army of 
unemployed elite, who seek political crumbs instead of meaningful 
preoccupations. Unemployed youths whose only hope of survival is to go 
abroad and high level of drug abuse.  A huge number of half baked graduates 
thanks to poor educational standard.

The government is dysfunctional unto meaningless to the people, as a result 
of its inexcusable failure in its statutory functions. In this arena, the 
people provide themselves with the social services, and public utilities, 
that are by law, the province of the government. The people provide 
themselves with electric power, by buying and operating power generators in 
their private homes, with all the attendant health and fire hazards. The 
people drill wells to provide themselves with potable water, which the 
government has woefully failed to provide. They even erect private 
arrangements for waste collection, for those who can’t they burnt it in 
their homes in the evenings because public utilities are at best epileptic 
and at worst dysfunctional. In fact, the government simply governs on 
television.

The security services are in league with the forces of social retrogression. 
robbers, swindlers and the police seem to be in an unholy alliance, designed 
to prey on the people. The human rights of the people are treated with 
utmost disdain, that life is cheaper than the price of peanuts. So, 
therefore the feature with Jammeh is surrounded with dark clouds.
The Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh







>From: Momodou S Sidibeh Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing 
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>Re: NADD RESPONSE TO UDP/NRP ALLIANCE (testing) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 
>00:38:41 +0200
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>Ndey,
>
>Good to know that you are back in Norway. I would have guessed that you 
>should be in London. All the same, it is good to know you ar back and 
>hopefully you will assume a more active role on the L.
>
>Yes, both you and I believed long ago that the chances for a coalition were 
>as good as dead. (Remember your brief exchange with Sister Jabou Joh months 
>ago?).
>
>However, that should not mean that the efforts of those who are still 
>working to produce a stable coalition should not be respected and 
>encouraged. It is partly on that account that I wondered why there seems to 
>be a deliberate effort to publish selected instances of the 
>behind-the-scenes negotiations. Whether or not the letters are authenthic, 
>it is perhaps the first time in the history of the internet that private 
>correspondence between two aspiring presidential candidates for a national 
>election are publicised in this manner, and this barely a couple of months 
>before a vote against an incumbent who has already began unleashing his 
>goons on the Opposition. Part of the effect, as is to be expected, is 
>supporters on either side are provided ammunition by which to undo the 
>propaganda efforts of the other.
>
>Oh yes, people can comment on these as much as they want. I have no doubt 
>it is one of the reasons they are out there. But I hope you would not make 
>these the point of departure in assessig why the coalition faultered?
>
>Have a good morning, sidibeh
>
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