Tombong, clearly you were not thoroughly following debates we had here with
Kebba Jobe a few months ago. If you were, you will NOT unashamedly exhibit
your ALES (Acute Low Expectation Syndrome) by peddling the same garbage your
side-kick, Jobe, was trying to sell here. After all, you both support
child-murderers with a fanaticism unparalleled here on G_L. Maybe you were
busy shuttling from continent to continent, performing what you can of your
'husbandly' duties and did NOT grasp what we tried to tell to Jobe. When you
ask Gambians to vote for Yaya (APRC) because of generators they bring in the
country, you are asking Gambians to also vote in a child-murderer capable of
butchering more children. Why should be suffer from ALES and NOT expect a
president that can give us MORE generators and would NOT Massacre our
children? That is the issue.

Darn right I am NOT impressed by the generators. Yaya and APRC deserve no
commendation. Knuckle-heads like Buba Baldeh would be the ones impressed by
this gimmickry and urge Gambians to thank God for Yaya. I am surprised that
you even did not read between the lines of the Observer report. The APRC
mouth-piece could NOT even articulate the 'purchase' for APRC to gain
maximum mileage. According to the Paper, "the launching of the rural
electrification programme this year will provide electricity supply to about
46 major villages and towns all over the country by 2003." The Paper further
went on to report that "this, according to SoS Touray, would afford
electricity supply to about 90 per cent of the Gambian population as
promised by the president".

Now, am I missing something here, or was Buba Baldeh reporting that Yaya's
'promise' will NOT be fulfilled until 2003? I thought your boss promised
that the 90% electrification would be reached before July 22, 2001. Correct
me if I am wrong. Would your boss stick to his word and NOT celebrate the
despicable day they stole power from a democratically elected government? Of
course 90% of the country have NOT been electrified. We do NOT even have all
the three generators that were already purchased. According to Buba Baldeh
and Yankuba Touray, you guys have NOT even started the 'Rural
Electrification Program'. The loans are NOT in yet.

Rather than being thankful to God for Yaya, Gambians should be praying
endlessly to God and asking for forgiveness for the sins that brought us
Yaya. At no time in our history have we suffered this much. I refer you
again to another garbage you sought to peddle here. The article from the
APRC mouthpiece (Observer) on poverty and Baddibu, categorically told you
that Gambians (as a whole) are POORER today that they were before Yaya stole
power in 1994. I put it to you that you are NOT only ignoring Baddibu, you
are ignoring the WHOLE COUNTRY. Apart from Yaya's little click of cronies
like yourself, Gambians are rendered destitute by the day. You can afford to
be shuttling from continent to continent, ride in a 'flamboyant' vehicle,
rent a decent house, carry a cell phone all over the place. How about the
farmer that has to wait three months to see one fifty dalasi note? Tell us
that your own stats are wrong and Gambians are not poorer today than they
were before Yaya. The dalasi is dilapidating by the day, commodities are
getting more expensive, yet self-employed farmers CANNOT even earn a decent
price for their crops. We are not even talking about the government creating
employment for people. We are talking about creating a conducive environment
for hardworking Gambians to earn a living. Now, if farmers go to their farms
they run the risk of being shot by Casamance rebels. Businesses cannot
thrive because of the extortion from thugs like Baabaa Jobe. Hotels are
empty because tourists know that Gambia is a lawless society under the grip
of a Dictatorship.

Anyway you slice it, Yaya CANNOT move us forward. It is telling that the
Observer revealed that the cost of the generators is US $15 million. What
Gambians should be asking themselves is what took Yaya so long to produce
this money for the generators. Saying that Jawara did not do it, is a poor
and an unacceptable excuse. If all the APRC can do is perform slightly
better than Jawara, then we do NOT need them and their callousness. We
deserve lot BETTER than both Jawara and Yaya had to offer us.

Coming back to the generators and their procurement during this election
season. Right after the coup, Ebou Jallow brought into the country more than
US $30 million from Taiwan. This is more than double the amount of money
needed to procure these generators. What did the vermin do with the money?
They opened personal Swiss Bank accounts and transferred money from the
Central Bank of The Gambia to those personal accounts. More money came into
the country; Nigerian Crude Oil etc. Our loan portfolio has skyrocketed
during the watch of the mental midgets. What did they do with all these
moneys? Yaya built himself some villas in Kanilai, fenced several villages
and declared them his own, got himself an airplane and a zoo and a wife. In
the meantime, some cronies also did not do poorly at all. The Famara Jattas
of this world are all building mansions at the expense of the poor Gambian
taxpayers. They are always engaging in bogus trips to go see their wives,
take their children to Disney World, bring their wives to the US to deliver
babies.

What can this bunch of shameless nonentities offer us? Nothing but misery. A
real government would have commissioned these generators since 1995 when all
those moneys were flowing from Taiwan. Rather than electrifying Kanilai, a
real government would have ensured adequate electricity for all our
hospitals and hotels in order to help boost the economy. Rather than
stealing money from the people and opening Swiss Bank accounts, a real
government would have electrified the whole country by 1998 instead of
waiting till 2003 and increasing our debt portfolio. The crux of the matter
is NOT the gimmicks Yaya is playing. We should focus on what could have been
done and who has the best potential to do good in the future.

Whereas on the one hand we have High School drop-outs that steal money from
the people and go around slaughtering children as young as three, on the
other hand, we have genuine Gambians with immense experience and integrity
that can develop the country and would not slaughter our children. Whatever
Yaya can do in terms of economic develop, ten-year-olds can do a comparable
job. The moron has nothing to offer us. We (the Opposition) should force
them (APRC) to run on their own record against people in the Opposition that
can do better than them in a future government. Jawara is NOT running in
this election. APRC with the Buba Baldehs and the Nafa Sahos and the Saihou
Sisays are closer to PPP than the current Opposition.

We should make Gambians to understand the missed opportunities these
criminals had because of their corruption. We should tell Gambians the
burden these vermin have loaded on our children with their irresponsible
borrowing habits. Generations yet unborn would pay for Yaya's stupidity. We
the Opposition do NOT need more loans and waiting till 2003 to electrify the
whole country. From only one of Yaya's Swiss accounts we can electrify the
whole country before October 2002.
KB

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