Dampha or Jallow,
                Do you know that a replacement of our former deputy
ambassador Mrs Fatou A K Njie has been appointed?!
If the isolation that u are imaginig was so harsh, would the above  have
happened? Did you also know that the current British High commissioner is so
close to Jammeh and is constantly visiting the zoo at Kanilai?
Visits like the one that Blair did, are based on purposes and not wishes or
abstract fraternity!
NB:FYI Bharat Joshi is now in mainland China as a British envoy(we also know
whats going on elsewhere brother) so give us a break with your superimposed
informants!
Isolationsism wouldn't and cannot be when Jammeh is being CORDIALLY INVITED
to send a delegation to the next commonwealth summit in Australia...A high
ranking delegation will be there anyway and to tell you  the truth a lot of
good and friendly messages have already been put in place! Stay tuned you
will very soon see the difference between fallacy,fantasy and reality!

Dampha Blair's visit couldn't have been better than the way it was
arranged.It is only diplomatic "eunochs" who think that flying over a
territory means snobbing it!
Didn't we see that very Blair snob Iraq and then fly to Iran?! What happened
afterwards? Aren't we seeing a surprising reunion between Iraq and Iran?
Please brother Geopolitics is far more than ARROGANT ANALYSIS AND WHAT THE
BIG SCREENS OF ITN ET AL GIVE US during our evening meals!

Good night sir!

YEROPULLOH.


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>As was mentioned here last week, a devastating blow was dealt The Gambia
>when Prime Minister Tony Blair blatantly snubbed the country and went all
>the way to Senegal and refused to visit Gambia.  This clearly shows that
>Gambia is still NOT in the caliber of Democratic countries like Ghana and
>Senegal.  This shows that the recently concluded presidential and
>parliamentary ‘elections’ in the country were nothing but a charade.  The
>British and all other civilized countries for that matter, know that
>Gambians still live under a Dictatorship.  Cosmetic gimmicks like
>appointing
>SM Dibba speaker of the parliament and giving ‘amnesty’ to Jawara is
>neither
>here nor there.  That does NOT mean that the elections were not stolen.
>That does NOT mean that our children were not slaughtered in broad daylight
>by some trigger-happy thugs that are still roaming the streets of Banjul
>scot-free.  Yaya’s ‘magnanimous’ actions towards Dibba and Jawara do not
>mean that we no longer have political prisoners like Dumo in the country.
>
>The international community sees through these gimmicks.  Window-dressing
>would NOT suffice to bring Gambia into the fold of civilized countries.  We
>still have a barbaric and callous regime back home.  No one can deny that
>our children were massacred by this regime in broad daylight and the regime
>continues to deny justice to the families of the victims.  What civilized
>nations think of Gambia and the leadership of the country is very
>important.
>  Why?  90% of our ‘Development Budget’ is financed by international grants
>and loans.  Without these grants and loans, Yaya himself will be eating
>grass.  Without these loans, there would be no roads, hospitals, schools,
>markets and dump trucks. Think of the plight of the poorest Gambians if the
>country cannot attract these funds.  Talk about generating taxes from
>Gambians and the people being self-sufficient is utter nonsense.  The
>reality is that the country is surviving because at a micro level people in
>the Diaspora send money to their folks and at a macro level, civilized
>nations give us grants and loans.  That is the bottom-line.  Silly talks
>about ‘Allah’s Bank’ is just ludicrous.
>
>So, one can convincingly argue that the best asset Gambia has is the
>‘goodwill’ of civilized nations.  With Yaya and his cohorts at the helm,
>Gambians should forget about portraying a good image for the country.  Just
>since the ‘elections’ this illegal government has done a number of things
>that would further isolate Gambia.  As usual, Yaya went on a firing spree
>and engaged in a number of politically motivated sackings.  This put the
>government on a collision course with both the World Bank and the EU (two
>of
>the major donors and lenders in the country).  Do we need an erratic person
>like Yaya Dictating to impotent civil servants like Alieu Ngum and Famara
>Jatta to alienate the international community?
>
>But perhaps the most disastrous dent to our image since the presidential
>elections is the entry of Baabaa (‘Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe to
>parliament.
>  We do not just have an internationally proscribed criminal in our
>Assembly, the APRC made this thug their leader in parliament.  It is
>pathetic to watch old men like SM Dibba defer to this common criminal.  You
>have all the APRC cronies/rubber-stamps in parliament cheering as Baabaa
>(‘Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe attempt to silence people like Halifa Sallah.
>We have a criminal government that hugs common criminals in defiance of the
>United Nations.  Does this government behave like a government that wants
>to
>join civilized nations?  Even nations like Libya, Cuba and Iraq are making
>‘smart’ moves to rejoin the ‘League of Nations’.  When Liberians were
>sanctioned with Baabaa (Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe, even the Liberian
>government was acting rationally and tried to put together a coherent case
>to the international community.  But what did our illegal government do?
>They blamed the diamond smuggling on the Sarahulehs in the country, wrote
>an
>ill-advised ‘protest’ to the United Nations and to top it off, the
>government now makes a common criminal their most ‘important’
>parliamentarian.  Clearly, this government does NOT know what it is doing.
>
>There is talk that the British and the French are looking into having joint
>embassies in certain parts of Africa, including West Africa.  Now, if these
>plans come to fruition, can people guess where the joint embassy is going
>to
>be located between Gambia and Senegal?  Do people think that when an
>important British diplomat like Bharat Joshi (who was expelled from The
>Gambia by our illegal regime) is asked to make recommendations about the
>location of the joint embassy, the man will have difficulties making a
>recommendation?  Of course the man will NOT want their diplomats to go to a
>Dictatorship where some erratic leader will just wake up and give diplomats
>few hours to pack their bags and leave.
>
>This illegal government has burnt many bridges.  I need not tell anyone
>what
>it means to not have a British embassy in the country.  I will just let
>this
>government continue to shoot itself.  That way, Gambians will eventually
>get
>tired and get rid of them.  What we can do from our end and what we will
>continue to do is expose the illegal behavior of the criminals running our
>country.  We have a visionless bunch of criminals lording over incompetent
>and impotent civil servants that do not have the wherewithal or the guts to
>do what is right.  We will continue to be isolated so long as Yaya and his
>cohorts are at the helm.  Blair and the international community have served
>us notice in no uncertain terms.  Dictators like Yaya, Mugabe, and Charles
>Taylor will no longer be tolerated or appeased by the British government
>and
>its allies.  It is the duty of the Opposition to expose the terrorism and
>corruption our callous leaders engage in to the detriment of defenseless
>citizens.  That way, the international community will isolate these leaders
>and hit them where it hurts the most: their Swiss Bank Accounts.  Without
>aid money Yaya will have to use some of his loots to ‘donate’ to Gambians
>to
>‘develop’ the country.  This is simply pathetic.
>KB
>
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