Compatriots
Is your discussion specifically about scholarship allocations and/or
corruption/nepotism of PPP administration?
Burama
On Friday, May 23, 2014, Matarr Sillah <
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> Suntou, it is a simple task. The challenge is a simple one to debunk ONE
> myth. You came here and said there were many you could name and you came
> back with absolutely nothing. To you, it is flimsy, to the children of
> ministers, it is something that they are probably interested in since
> almost none of them have ever being a recipient of these scholarships that
> we've been hearing of for over 40 years.
>
> Your other grievances against the PPP has been well documented and you
> personally cannot do anything to stop them from partaking in Gambian
> politics. If they care enough, they will take note of the attacks you have
> embarked on since they announced that they are revitalizing their party,
> and respond to you. The fact that they haven't tells me that they have
> bigger fishes to fry than make noise in these forums and blogs.
>
> For now however, give us one of the many sons of ministers you said
> received scholarships.
>
> Matarr
>
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> * From: * suntou touray <[log in to unmask]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>>;
>
> * To: * <[log in to unmask]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>>;
>
> * Subject: * Re: Sidi Sanneh Says Bring the forth the Evidence
> * Sent: * Fri, May 23, 2014 11:54:06 AM
>
>
> Modou
> 'There are Gambians who see nothing wrong with helping friends, family
> members, children of cult members, club members, drinking buddies, golf
> playing buddies etc at the advantage of genuine intelligent poor students.'
> This is why I said, it is ridiculous for Sidi to throw such flimsy
> challenges. In fact, the police who openly take bribe can ask for proofs
> that they are corrupt, the custom officers who dupe Gambians of millions,
> the ports staff, the revenue collectors, the housing officers, I mean,
> there is wide range of nepotism, corruption, and ill-discipline in all
> spheres of our system. Hence, the systematic failures should not and cannot
> be brushed under the carpet by Sidi Sanneh or any other former senior civil
> servant under Jawara and Yaya Jammeh for that matter.
> His views smell of cockiness and outright arrogance. Systematic problems
> are issues that are address from top down. However, if former big players
> within middle to senior level civil services want to tell us, there are no
> staff members whose sole aims in departments was not to favour their close
> kit and kin, then God help us.
>
> Under President Jammeh, he personalised the whole system..He handpicked
> students to be offered scholarships, and the system in still fraudulent.
> To end the failures within our institutions, we have to first address
> systematic and behavioural short comings. The arrogance in the elite circle
> is legendary in Africa, no wonder, nothing gets addressed. Who has the time
> to contact all those Gambian disadvantaged and denied access to scholarship
> based on their lack of front men in the system? The numbers are huge and
> what we can do is accept that, no system is full proof, and abuses do take
> place in every department. There are Gambians who see nothing wrong with
> helping friends, family members, children of cult members, club members,
> drinking buddies, golf playing buddies etc at the advantage of genuine
> intelligent poor students.
> We should be bold and brave enough to accept the system in place during
> Jawara era had flaws, some are institutional whilst some are behavioural.
> However, I am not the least surprise the likes of Sidi are denying the
> malpractices that existed. We need to be sophisticated enough to
> understand, we are a long way away from addressing our compounded problems.
> Poverty is a mole in our midst that will make many people self-centred,
> corrupt, nepotic, and bias. And the sooner we accept our problems, the
> better we can plan to address them.
> Yahya Jammeh's malpractices are such that, the enablers make everything
> easy for him. Isn't it Gambians doing all the wrong doing Sidi Sanneh is
> blog posting everyday about. It is the same Gambians who were there during
> Jawara's time. Jawara was very soft. Calling him a dictator is inaccurate.
>
> The failures for instance of Gambian Commercial and Development bank is
> marred in multiple facets. Whatever categories Sidi Sanneh put forward was
> abused. This is not a direct comparison between President Jammeh and
> Jawara, or the PPP and APRC...If the systems in place are susceptive to
> abuses, it doesn't matter which party or person is the head of government,
> people will be corrupt. And corruption is not just taking money directly,
> many forms of favours are classic corruption. Certainly, the scholarship
> board then and now has members who don't according to the rule.
> Suntou
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Modou Nyang <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> Matarr,
> Now it appears as if you are representing Sidi or have some kind of vested
> interested in this. Here is my response to you. First, I did not make any
> claim or accusation of nepotism or otherwise against the Jawara government
> or even Yaya what I did was share an article I found to be very low in
> persuasion and asked a few I think may have something to say about it.
>
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