My Dearest Sister Jabou,
I will never expect any disrespect from you. You a well matured person, who is a
model in the Gambia-L. Your contributions are always based on facts. I wish, if
we had got a President like you in the Gambia. Everything will be straight
forward.

Happy Ramadan
Elhajj.

Jabou Joh skrev:

> Elhadj,
>
> You can always count on me to agee to disagree with respect, and i hope that
> you did not find my response to you disrespectful because that was definitely
> not my intention.
> I think that those who hold the  notion that Ebou Jallow is being singled out
> while others who have committed fraud and other atrocities against our people
> are not being challenged in the same manner missing the point completely.
>
> Ebou Jallow just happens to be one who has made his identity known here on
> the L, and is thus being challenged by Gambians and rightly so. I think there
> is no one here who can say that if Yaya Jammeh or any others from his regime
> or from the PPP regime who are alleged to have committed fraud against the
> people were to make their identieis known here will go unchallenged for
> similar or worse allegations.
>
> The people on the L are Gambians who know their rights and who make no secret
> of demanding the best from our leaders, and we hope that our entire society
> will one day be comprised of people who are far from  being complacent and
> easy tools and victims of unsavoury characters masquersding as respectable
> leaders.
>
> Ordinary citizens taking people who have wronged us to task are the voices
> that are crying out for justice, and which justice we hope will be served by
> a court of law one day. The expression of our outrage as citizens on this
> forum cannot possibly be mistaken as a substitute for due process in a court
> of law one day, but it must also never be silenced simply because we just
> cannot afford for that to happen.
>
> Jabou Joh
>
> In a message dated 11/24/2001 11:04:09 AM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Jabou,
> > I fully agree with all what you said. " A thief is just a thief ". In my
> > opinion,
> > all thieves should be treated the same way. Some people has taken more than
> > what
> > Ebou has taken, and we want to put a blind eye on them. I want to see them
> > attacked in any Gambian gathering, just as Ebou Jallow is being attacked. I
> > made
> > it clear that Ebou owe us explainations, and i am not defending his action,
> >  but i
> > cannot digest that he is the only thief who owe us explainations. What
> > about the
> > others ?
> > Jabou, you know that Ebou did not give me a penny on this amount. I
> > repeatedly
> > said that i sympathize with Ebou, because of the antagonisms he faces
> > within the
> > Gambian community.  But let people understand that, one can only sympathize
> > with a
> > friend / relative / whatever / when they face difficulties, but you cannot
> > change
> > the process of the truth. The truth will always be the truth!  I hope my
> > fellow
> > G-Lers  will understand my positon not to misjudge me. Frankly, I did not
> > regret
> > joining the L, because i met with old friends, met with new friends and
> > usually
> > get a lot of fun here. So, I highly appreciate this gathering, and also
> > respect
> > their views on our debates. It is not always that we will see eye to eye on
> > issues, but it does make us to be enemies. Let us just disagree with
> > respect, not
> > to creat enemity between us.
> >
> > Happy Ramadan
> > Elhajj.
>
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