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Joe,

Ma ngee laka


>From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Eid Mubarak
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:14:19 +0000
>
>Beran, thanks for your response and pledge to a more constructive
>engagement.  I'm sure Yus will reciprocate in kind.  Both of you are an
>asset to our nation and please do not loose sight of that.  Naaka Yaapu
>Harr
>Bi?
>
>Chi Jaama
>
>Joe Sambou
>
>
>>From: Beran jeng <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Eid Mubarak
>>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:24:12 -0500
>>
>>Halima & Joe,
>>
>>I decided to use a different subject heading to respond to your appeal.The
>>intension is to reiterate my commitment to you and all on this list that I
>>will refrain from contributing to negative exchanges
>>be rest assured that the recent posting will not make me break that pledge
>>to you.I introduce computers in The Gambia and popularize its use.I have
>>on
>>several occaisons pick a high school graduate off the streets and train
>>them
>>and get them a job using computers and a whole
>>lot more.When Allan Goodrige,the then accountant general approached me
>>to assist the government to automate the payroll and pensions required
>>by the world bank and IMF,without which the government will not get
>>funds.I
>>considered it and concluded that I'm obligated to assist my country and
>>not
>>only that,by computerizing the government payroll and pension will help in
>>minimizing the ghost that existed and therby contributing to reducing the
>>rampant corruption that existed.I mortgage my compound and use that money
>>to
>>team up with my Ghanian counter parts
>>to develop the payroll from scratch using cobol.In 1989,computer
>>application
>>packages was not available off the shelf as it is today.It has to be
>>develop
>>and was expensive to develop.The standard charges ranged from $100 per
>>hour
>>and can you Imagine for almost 2 years.
>>After all this sacrifice,under the previous regime,because I was not a
>>party
>>supporter or sympathizer and also by me refusing to dish out money
>>under the table to get my money,I was not paid only given a token
>>advance.When the current regime came into power,I was called to the Algali
>>commission,the press was there,I submitted a claim of $1.5 million which
>>was
>>forwarded to the accountant general but still not paid.From accountant
>>general,I automated G.U.C curbing the corruption in the billing and metre
>>allocations,then to exams council,post office.
>>I also serviced US Emabassy Banjul and British High commission and more.
>>I don't mean to bore you with all these details but I thought it will be
>>usefull to whomever is interested in finding out about my work in the
>>Gambia.Sixteen years on the ground working in The Gambia is not easy
>>especially,when you are not politivally connected.
>>
>>I wish all of you a happy tobaski and would like to inform you that I can
>>provide you with a lamb upgrade from Pentium II lamb to a pentium IV
>>lamb.Please don't worry about the slaughtering because my "Kongkareh"
>>is readily available to serve that function.In the event that you have a
>>dead computer,bring it to the halal and I will gladly swap the dead part
>>with lamb part and vice versa if your lamb happens to die.
>>
>>I wish all an EID mubarak.
>>
>>Beran
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>>><[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Eid Mubarak
>>>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:43:26 -0500
>>>
>>>Eid Mubarak to you all,
>>>A surgeon general warning to Drammeh, Fofana Kanyi, Sidibeh kunda kollu
>>>and
>>>all those food-loving folks, eating too much Banna Salli subo (meat from
>>>sacrificial lamb) can be bad for your stomach.
>>>
>>>JAITEH KUNDA
>>>
>>>
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