thank you for this brilliant initiative.allow me to raise some additional
questions and suggestion.

Do the gambian people have no assets to recover from the pre 1994
period?where all the peoples assets recovered in the post 1994 period? Do we
have to limit the starting point of corrections only from the post 1994
periods?

i will suggest that along with individual initiatives  of concerned
people,cornerned organisations should also cordinate to develop a MASTERPLAN
FOR TACKLING THE GAMBIAN CRISIS.

some non critical security aspects of the masterplan can be subjected to the
people for discussion adjusment,and final approval for implimentation.

thank you

>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Moving Forward ---- Asset Recoveries
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:21:53 -0400
>
>In the same spirit I counseled here the other day that Subscribers versed
>in
>certain areas should try and draw out working papers for the Opposition as
>we move to October 2001, I will attempt to get the ball rolling by setting
>out what I hope will be the first post in a series of posts addressing HOW
>the Opposition is going to better the lot of Gambians when it is elected
>after the 2001 elections. I welcome criticism of these suggestions and I
>hope in the final analysis the Opposition on the ground would see these
>suggestions as merely trying to supplement the brilliant plans they already
>have in their arsenal. Now, there is no turning back. APRC CANNOT steal
>some
>of our good ideas and implement them in order to win votes. They have
>woefully failed the Gambian people and they CANNOT put sand over this
>wound.
>
>Today I would like to talk about 'ASSET RECOVERIES'. At the onset let me
>categorically say that this is NOT about 'Asset Evaluation' and kangaroo
>courts. Rather than assuming that people are guilty from the onset and
>shifting the burden on them to prove that they are not corrupt, we are
>going
>to come up with solid FACTS to prove AFPRC/APRC corruption. We will hoist
>the vermin to regular courts. Try them like all common criminals. Seize
>their ill-gotten gains and sell them for the common good.
>
>We are going to establish a SPECIAL COURT manned by two of our top Gambian
>judges. We will clear the docket for these judges and transfer all their
>regular cases to some of those foreign judges that would still be in the
>country.
>
>We will form a crack team of investigators headed by a top-notch
>PROSECUTOR.
>The investigating team will be given wide powers to probe bank transfers
>and
>all sorts of transactions these vermin have been engaged in. One of the
>first pieces of legislation our new president would want to pass would be
>an
>'Act establishing the office of this special prosecutor'. This body can be
>an appendage of the AG Chambers. But the prosecutor need not be an employee
>of AG Chambers. The prosecutor and his team of lawyers and investigators
>(accountants, police officers, journalists etc.) will be given wide powers
>to decide what cases to prosecute and what plea bargains (immunity) to
>accept in order to get to the millions of dollars these vermin stole from
>us.
>
>As soon as practicable under our laws, we should freeze all the ill-gotten
>gains of the vermin. We should seize all their travel documents to prevent
>them from absconding. All can be done through court orders. To investigate,
>try, convict and punish these vermin should NOT take long. They are so
>stupid and arrogant that they have NOT covered their tracks sufficiently.
>Take for instance the 'complaint' Yaya filed in Swiss Courts on January 16,
>1996. The vermin used our own AG's Chambers and Gambian taxpayers' money to
>fight a court battle in Switzerland against Ebou Jallow. Apart from the
>storied US $3 million Yaya transferred from the Gambian Central Bank to a
>personal Swiss account at Credit Lyonnais, Yaya also claimed against Ebou
>Jallow the staggering sum of US $20 (twenty) million which was deposited at
>the Citibank N.A. New York branch in Geneva.
>
>The vermin CANNOT deny this. There are public court documents to prove what
>I am saying. Now, is the then Attorney General of The Gambia (in 1996)
>going
>to stand up and say that the moneys recovered from Ebou Jallow went into
>Gambian coffers? As you can see, getting to the bottom of these cases is
>piece of cake. There are somewhat similar court documents cataloguing their
>shenanigans in the Nigerian Crude Oil Deal. Moneys that changed hands with
>corporations like CSE in order to grant them government contracts would
>also
>be easy to prove. To prove that Tarik Musa and Amadou Samba do NOT own
>Yaya's plane is also child's play.
>
>We should work swiftly (with due process of course) to recover these
>ill-gotten gains. The moneys we recover will go a long way in financing
>some
>of our most urgent projects. Rather than taking out loans and further
>burdening our children, let us pounce on Yaya and his cronies and seize
>their ill-gotten gains. We should endeavor to strip the vermin naked in the
>FIRST 100 DAYS of the new Administration.
>
>Recap: pass a law to establish the office of a special prosecutor. Give the
>prosecutor a budget and powers to investigate and prosecute corruption
>case;
>while Yaya and his cohorts are at Mile Two courtesy of real court orders.
>Take aside two Gambian judges and clear their dockets. Parade the vermin on
>National TV and show the whole world what the mental midgets have been up
>to
>the past seven years.
>
>I again respectfully urge subscribers to critique my points and also come
>up
>with other suggestions as to what we are going to do for the Gambian people
>AFTER Yaya. Ebrima Ceesay, I am NOT trying to single you out, but I would
>think that your excellent series on 'Messages to the Gambian people' is a
>good resource to use in order to look at the failures of the vermin and
>provide plans that will help us avoid those failures. We also have fine
>economists in our midst. Fine soldiers. Great engineers, doctors and
>computer wiz. I encourage all to try and chip in. We must NOT leave our
>people to the mercy of these vermin and their misinformation. As we give
>our
>Opposition leaders material support, let us also try and share with them
>good ideas that will move the country forward when we get rid of the
>vermin.
>KB
>
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