Alpha blondy could not have said it any better,i only hope that the Gambian
facist and his clique would read this and realize that,you cannot impose
your will on the people ,and call yourself PRESIDENT.
This was the problem i had with a member of Yahya Jammeh's delegation to U.N
summit.in an attempt to have an atempt to talk to some one about the
demonstration by Gambians against his despotic regime ,i asked if i could
speak to YAHYA JAMMEH , the man got very upset and hung up the phone ,when i
called back he told me that i should not address the facist by his
name.Ofcourse a heated argument ensued when i told him that YAHYA is not a
person deserves the respect of being refered to as president and that it was
a digrace to even think about him as the president of the Gambia.
PASAMBA JOW COACH
>From: Sidi Sanneh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Ivory Coast is "going to explode" says reggae star
>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:04:25 -0400
>
>ICoast-politics
>    Ivory Coast is "going to explode" says reggae star
>
>    ABIDJAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - Ivory Coast is "going to explode" said Ivorian
>reggae singer Alpha Blondy Tuesday, accusing the country's military leaders
>of
>being agreed on a collective suicide.
>    Blondy said soldiers "armed to the teeth" had searched his home Monday
>a
>few hours after an attack on junta leader General Robert Guei's residence.
>    The attack is being blamed by the military regime on supporters of
>popular
>opposition presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara, who is running against
>Guei in elections next month.
>    The singer said the raid on his house was related to a recent article
>in
>an
>Ivorian paper in which he was accused of hiding weapons for Ouattara's
>party,
>the Rally of Republicans (RDR).
>    "As far as they are concerned my name is proof of my membership of the
>RDR," Blondy told AFP.
>    "Coming to my house on the basis of rumours tells me they are
>desperate,
>this search was an admission of desperation by the junta," he said.
>    "I am going to talk to my lawyers, I would like to sue General Guei, if
>it
>is he who sent them. I say 'the general', not 'the president'...You can't
>impose a president on the Ivorian people by armed force," said Blondy.
>    Guei was swept to power in a coup last December, pledging he would not
>try
>to remain in office. He said then that power did not interest him and that
>he
>was only there to "clean up the Ivorian household".
>    His decision to stand as presidential candidate has met with fierce
>criticism, both at home and from the former colonial power France and the
>United States.
>    Blondy, who as an outspoken critic of ousted president Henri Konan
>Bedie
>had welcomed last year's coup, said: "From the moment (Guei) put forward
>his
>candidacy (for the presidential elections set for October 22) he was acting
>illegally."
>    "His fear comes from the knowledge that he has has broken his officer's
>oath," said Blondy.
>    Blondy said that Ivory Coast's first president, Felix Houphouet Boigny,
>who
>died in 1993 and whom Guei "quotes all the time", also "entrusted him with
>the
>country".
>    The singer quoted Houphouet Boigny as saying: "When you are famous you
>do
>not belong to yourself, you belong to those who have put their faith in
>you,
>you do not have the right to betray them."
>    "In Africa, one coup d'etat leads to another, I would like to avoid
>this
>spiral," the singer said.
>    "I will not let them do the same stupid things that happen in other
>countries...The sources of this political chaos will find me in their way,
>I
>cannot support a situation which sees our army - it is not his - tearing
>itself apart. They do not have the right of life and death over themselves,
>still less over the Ivorian people," said Blondy.
>    "Like everyone, I am afraid, that's why I am opening my big mouth...I
>am
>afraid of their weapons, but I am even more afraid of what is going to
>happen," he said.
>    "These are people who want things to fall apart whatever the cost. You
>cannot speak for the Ivorian people and at the same time condemn them to
>the
>slaughterhouse...I will not let them do it, I will not allow this
>collective
>suicide," Blondy said.
>    sa/crl/kc
>
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