Wonder who is calling for perfection.  Rubbish allusion. Perfection is a
myth. Only in the minds unreaistic dreamers.

Mboge

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  And when we cut-off our malignant arms and legs, our perfectly rounded
> torso will writhe itself down the streets of Banjul.
>
> Perfection must not be the enemy of good.
>
> Malanding Jaiteh
>
>
> On 12/4/2012 6:27 PM, Modou Mboge wrote:
>
> *Character Assassination or a question of scrutinizing the record and
> integrity of an ‘enabler’ who fell out with President Yahya Jammeh:
>  The case of former Professor Dr Amadou ‘Scattered’ Janneh*
>
> By Momodou Olly Mboge
>
> The heated argument that erupted following the excellent factual scrutiny
> of Dr Amadou ‘Scattered’ Janneh’s record both before and during his tenure
> as one of President Yahya Jammeh’s State Ministers or Secretaries rumbles
> on.  The defenders of Janneh or should I say the ‘critically minded
> analyst’ or the ‘the politically incorrect’ as one claimed, believe that
> Prince Obrien-Coker and those who agree with his analogy are engaged in
> assassinating the good character of Janneh as well as trying to elbow him
> (and ‘turn coats like him’) out from the ranks of the opposition.  Their
> arguments are becoming hysterical and incoherent the more they come out
> swinging in defense of Janneh.
>
> Those who agree with Prince instead believe that it is prudent, fair, and
> wise to be reminded of the ‘turn coats’ among the opponents of Jammeh who
> are being compared with ‘Mandela’ as well as being positioned as the new
> enlightened ‘saviours’ and champions of the struggle to rid the Gambia of
> Sheikh His Excellency President Alhagi Dr Professor Yahya Jammeh.  Since I
> consider myself among those who agree with Prince Obrien-Coker’s
> observation, I am apt to think that he is asking and trying to answer the
> ‘never again’ question so as not to let future generations of Gambians
> being led astray in the struggle against tyranny in their country.  The
> Nigerian critic, Chinweizu, who has had many an intellectual battle with
> Wole Soyinka cautioned against not asking and trying to answer the ‘never
> again’ question in the analogy below.  He writes:
>
> “Consider a man who has just escaped, half mauled, from the den of a pack
> of hungry lions. If he is wise, his first order of business is to vow
> “Never again!” and ask how he strayed there in the first place, and then to
> take steps never again to make that mistake. If he does not do this, if he
> fails to learn from his harrowing experience, he is stupid and deserves to
> become the dinner for the next lion that comes his way. By failing to ask
> and answer that “never again” question, Black Africa’s “independence”
> generation let Black Africa down and led us astray.” Chinweizu (2008)
>
> Indeed the Gambian opposition to SHEPAD Jammeh has been mauled more than
> one time by pretenders and opportunists.  It is way beyond the point it
> should have asked the ‘never again’ question and to find answers to such a
> crucial question.  It will be more than stupidity not to do so.  Prince
> Obrien-Coker has cued us.  We should be having more of the type of scrutiny
> he has made on the records of Dr A S Janneh.  Dr Janneh sullied his own
> integrity by dining and enabling the devil.  As one observer on the online
> forums the good Dr ‘assassinated his own character’ and I should add he has
> done a damn good job.  No spinning can change that.
>
> The lead defender of Amadou Scattered Janneh, Mathew Jallow whose
> narcissism and charlatanry are legendary tells us that what Prince
> Obrien-Coker wrote about his friend Janneh is just the ‘fertile
> imagination’ of the gentleman devoid of evidence.  He wants us to believe
> that Dr Janneh and his likes were actually in the government system to
> subvert President Jammeh’s efforts.  In the words Mathew Jallow: “From the
> day of his appointment to the day of his dismissal, Dr. Janneh worked
> actively but clandestinely every opportunity he had to undermine the Yahya
> Jammeh regime”.  Jallow goes on to cite some evidence for this, one of
> which was when Janneh was accused of working for foreign agents.   The
> funny thing about Mathew’s rebuttal of Prince Obrien-Coker’s facts is that
> he would not divulge certain information because if does he will be
> endangering some lives in the Gambia. Standard evasiveness.  Well, to be me
> this is an absurd excuse. If Mathew and his friends are serious in their
> claim that people are trying to ‘assassinate the character’ of the good Dr
> or shall I say Professor A S Janneh.  I think they should be more
> convincing in their arguments than hiding behind flimsy and preposterous
> excuses which no one can verify or substantiate. Mathew, the man who has
> bamboozled us with his skills and intellectual acumen as well as being the
> ‘most qualified Gambian to be President’ should stop taking people for
> being stupid.  Most Gambians are discerning and are engaged critically at
> all levels with the struggle to get rid of Jammeh.
>
> As I hurriedly stated in a response (full of errors) to an editor of one
> of the Gambian online papers the idea that Dr Amadou S Janneh is a Mandela
> figure who has suddenly brought to light the conditions in Gambian prisons
> is I repeat a fallacy and ‘nonsense on stilts’ which obviously means
> nonsense upon nonsense.  Any honest person following what is going on in
> the Gambia knows that Foroyaa has spent a lot of ink and paper concerning
> the conditions in Gambian prisons.  Halifa Sallah, yes Halifa Sallah whose
> mention stirs a lot anger and vitriol from some of his so-called,
> self-ascribed ‘critical scrutinisers’ has continuously spoken and written
> about Gambian prison conditions.  Many other people with experience of
> those conditions have spoken about it.  The conditions in Gambian prison
> have not changed since Dr Janneh’s sojourn.  Dr Janneh suffered for no
> one.  Though I agree he was wrongly incarcerated, he did not go to prison
> for the ‘people’.
>
> Furthermore, the idea that we can learn from Dr A S Janneh’s proximity to
> President Jammeh is neither here nor there.  There is nothing we do not
> know about Jammeh that we can learn from Dr Janneh so that argument should
> be thrown where it belongs in the trash can.
>
> For what it is worth, no one is denying Dr Amadou Scattered Janneh or
> people like him the right to oppose President Jammeh.  He has all the right
> to do so.  Equally no one should try to stop people scrutinising the
> integrity of persons like him based on facts about their record.
>
> In the mean time I eagerly await more installments from Prince
> Obrien-Coker of the type on Amadou S Janneh.
>
>
>
>
>
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