Thanks Mboge, and the clarity you spoke of is ever present in your own thoughts. I'm hoping we will one day have the opportunity of a face to face conversation right on native soil to relive our intricate Diaspora opposition to public lawlessness in The Gambia
I don't think I will ever understand why the "turncoats", historical, or current, closed their eyes to the sad reality of our public terrain to compete in washing the feet of His Excellency SHEPAD Y A J J J even as their fellow citizens were unlawfully incarcerated, disappeared, tortured, and murdered. Just this week, we were treated to a eureka moment, a moment of sublime discovery, when we were excitedly inform on several online outlets that long years of painstaking research just proved that Professor Jammeh thinks Gambia belongs to him. How fantastic was that phenomenal discovery, and how brilliantly it adds to our knowledge of our dear leader. You and I knew that some fifteen years ago! I suspect we were not alone, but it apparently only just became obvious to some fellow citizens. Like the Trojan product, I'm not buying this one. It cannot but be fake!
LJDarbo
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From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2013, 9:45
Subject: Re: [G_L] Nana Grey-Johnson
LJD,
You've illustrated the reality of the rotten system created under the devillish leadership of the Madman SHEPAD Jammeh. It is very clear the idea that any so-called 'intellectual' (using the word reluctantly keeping in mind the insightful commentary by Dr Baba Galleh's on the intellectual) have the capacity to work effectively and efficiently under the government of Yahya Jammeh is false. I won't accept anyTrojan product even if it is offered gratis by these opportunistic individuals.
Thanks again for the Baba Jobe (May he rest in eternal peace) illustration. It is instructive.
LJD, keep it up. You are a great resource and inspiration.
Best regards as always,
Mboge
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Well Mboge, we are not speculating here. As if Professor Jammeh was reading us on the "L" and "the Post" on the Trojan question around the "turncoats", he clearly stated that no one comes to his Cabinet to "manage" him. He specifically made this pointless statement during the EU 17-point crisis. I termed it "pointless" because I am in no doubt he stated the dominant reality in his political territory and any suggestion to the contrary is just plain fantasy. I won't buy any Trojan product even if priced at just a butut in that as long as it relates to the Professor's Cabinet terrain, it has to be fake. Like all the other "turncoats", Nana Grey-Johnson is there for Nana Grey-Johnson and he cannot improve the plight of the private media in The Gambia. I don't know about you, but I won't live in crocodile infested waters if that habitat is totally alien to my nature, i.e., if I do not have some crocodile characteristics myself. Anyone who joined the
Professor's Cabinet after April 2000 must have closed his eyes to extremely blatant realities.
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>Below I illustrate!
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>In late October 1998, Baba Jobe (may the God of infinite mercy forgive him) called me at Banjul Magistrates Court on an administrative matter touching MansaKonko Magistrates Court. I was newly appointed Magistrate but retained my immediate past position as Senior Assistant Secretary in the Judiciary until a substantive replacement could be found. I was therefore the point-person for all non-critical administrative matters affecting the Judiciary. During the 15-20 minutes conversation, Baba informed me that anyone not supportive of President Jammeh cannot be in good terms with him. I don't know where this was coming from as I did not make any difficult decisions as of this time. Baba was at the height of his influence and he probably saw an opportunity to intimidate a new Magistrate.
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>Fast forward to 2004 when Baba was on trial for alleged economic crimes. Sensing the direction of the trial, Baba's lawyer filed a motion before the trial Court to say he was not confident of getting a fair trial and outcome. The absence of a fair trial was never a worry for Baba before 2004, but he must have known a thing or two about politically persecutions and closed his eyes to the tragedy inherent in that great travesty.
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>When did Baba know about unfair trials in politically motivated cases? In 2004, or well before the tragedy of his unlawful conviction and sentence, a conviction and sentence that was to ultimately end in his untimely death? I am not in the business of creating any excuses for the deliberately blind and deaf intellectuals situated like Nana Grey-Johnson. They can't even slightly shake the Professor's system and I am always amused to hear this utter fantasy thrown around.
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>LJDarbo
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> From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Saturday, 27 April 2013, 9:36
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>' ...but Nana Grey-Johnson has his faculties intact. No one understands the Professor's political terrain better than those who accept his ministerial appointments. Be "fired" and live in "dignity"? A snowball has more chance in hell!'
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>Thanks for the usual clarity. Indeed Grey-Johnson has his faculties fully intact. The day this 'opportunist' accepted to work for a known killer of children was the day he forfeited his integrity and dignity. There is no dignity in working for a killer and murderer. Jammeh is an unrepentant murderer and working for his government at the level these 'enablers' do is simply criminal. They will never be allowed to hogwash us with their convoluted reasons for joining the devil. We will InSaaAllah be around to remind them and their apologists of their opportunism and hyprocrisy.
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>Best,
>Mboge
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>On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Ah Demba, I love your optimism but Nana Grey-Johnson has his faculties intact. No one understands the Professor's political terrain better than those who accept his ministerial appointments. Be "fired" and live in "dignity"? A snowball has more chance in hell!
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
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>>Subject: Re: [G_L] Nana Grey-Johnson
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>>Mawdo Yero,
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>>I feel you and have equal concerns. But I have a different perspective or should I say dream on this... I think if Minister Johnson is able to detach himself from the politics of the day and make efforts to work with the private media, he may not be successful but his efforts will be recorded in history as one of our own who care about the media. He may not last long, but again that would have proven that were he to have the right political landscape he would indeed success in building bridges where needed.
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>>Off course we know the bar is low in his success, but we also must recognize in the most difficult of circumstances, the most challenging and oppressing political environment, citizens can still try to work hard and independently to achieve something. So while Mr. Johnson may not last long on his role, if I were him (not in million years) I would work independently and let me be fired and live my dignity and respect. So I believe Mr. Johnson can build an independent relationship with the media and they will admire his efforts successful or not...
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>>On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Yero Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Like the adage goes, "mining mining, tafal tafal, ah labang dula, tohnya." There seems to be a new Joshua in town. He is speaking like his predecessors. I personally doubt it is possible to be with Jammeh and be with the media fraternity at the same time. Let us see it.....I bet you, if you (Nana) make any comments about investingating the deaths of Chief Ebrima Manneh and Deyda Hydara; opening the closed radios and newspapers; and the many other problems of the media including the draconium stipulation that claimed Deyda's life, you will soon make Jammeh lose patience on you and put you in the right place like he did to your predecessors.
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>>>What I think you (Nana) are doing is to coax (fool) the media houses by pretending that you are with them and stationing your self more on this ministry post. Please forgive my sturborness and spare me from the niceties like they say. For a long time, I have stopped being a fan of toad-politicians who change in stages overnight. These toad-politicians speak like angels during day, and at night, they are were-wolves dining with the devil and picking crumbs like the house dog. With all that this regime has done to citizens and continues to do which is clearly in the open, any of your ilks that joins this rotten administration in the name of changing the status quo is digging his own grave. Others more influential couldn't do this. What makes you think you can do it?
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>>>Best,
>>>Yero
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>>>[‘I belong to you, I am one of you, I have not changed sides, I have not abandoned the fraternity. What I have done is I have extended the scope of the fraternity, and if you understand what that means and what advantages there are for you as an industry, I think we will begin to capture the essence of how we can mutually achieve our purposes,’ he said.] --(The Point Newspaper, 04/26/2013)
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>>>http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/i-have-not-changed-sides-new-information-minister-tells-journalists
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>>>I have not changed sides, new Information Minister tells journalists
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>>>The new minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure has told journalists that he has not in any way changed sides or abandoned the media fraternity, stressing that what he has done is to extend the scope of the fraternity.
>>>Nana Grey-Johnson was speaking yesterday during a press briefing at GRTS building in Kanifing at the end of a familiarization tour of institutions under his ministry.
>>>‘I belong to you, I am one of you, I have not changed sides, I have not abandoned the fraternity. What I have done is I have extended the scope of the fraternity, and if you understand what that means and what advantages there are for you as an industry, I think we will begin to capture the essence of how we can mutually achieve our purposes,’ he said.
>>>A veteran journalist himself, Nana Grey-Johnson, whose tour took him to institutions like Gamtel/Gamcel, GRTS, GPPC and the Department of Information Services, said it is amazing to see what power lies in these institutions to take us where we have to go.
>>>‘The Gambia having outlined its objectives on several levels, we need to now find out, since we have spokespersons out there in the form of the media, how are they going to engage with government so that we take the objectives forward,’ he stated.
>>>He told journalists that it goes without saying that the outlook of government is national; obviously information must reach as many people as possible, and information will only reach these people through the systems that we are.
>>>On his reaction to what he saw during the tour, the Minister said he saw hope, power, potential all of which are not being tapped.
>>>‘That is a general description of what I saw,’ he said.
>>>On what immediate plans he has to ensure a nationwide coverage by GRTS, the Minister said broadcasts going on air are going on air at great costs.
>>>‘There are resource issues to talk about, there are human resources issues to cover, the plans are there and they fall within a major strategic plan,’ he added.
>>>According to him, he came on board and is talking about the repositioning of his Ministry, and has considered with his technicians the issues of “making sure that we have concrete short term, medium and long term use of what we are doing” between now and 2018/2020.
>>>‘It is our major concern that somebody will call GRTS and say I am here, I am a citizen, I lived in a particular place and I know nothing that is going on through GRTS broadcasts.
>>>‘Certainly, GRTS radio is one of my priorities, and the reason I’m saying this is that the studios I visited yesterday, I used to broadcast from them,’ he said.
>>>He noted that what has pushed him to dream about his ministry being a self financing ministry is because he is talking about Gamtel/Gamcel, GPPC, an organization that has been able to turn itself from the black in a matter of a year or a year and half, turn its accounts from red to black simply because of proper accounting, good personnel on the ground, responsible overseership, board members paying attention to the fact that they are a corporation and have a culture of behavior.
>>>On whether there are plans to visit media houses, Nana Grey-Johnson responded: ‘Yes, why not because if we are people who are giving information, then we should be informed ourselves. I will find some time to be able to talk to the media houses, to see how they are running, see what their problems are; because it is only then that we will be able to address issues from an informed point of view, so that we know exactly how to treat each other.’
>>>‘We are interested in each other; we need to know what the other person is doing or thinking, so that we can formulate the national agenda, which is bigger than Nana Grey-Johnson, and it has to be so that I know exactly where I fit in within my contributions.
>>>‘I am going to bring the media houses in so that we see a common future, a national future rather than a fragmented, agenda-filled environment which is not conducive to anything developmental,’ he stated.
>>>Author: Njie Baldeh
>>>Source: Picture: Nana Grey-Johnson
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