>From: panderry mbai <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: GAMBIA'S ENERGY CRISIS-JAMMEH IS NOT THE  SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT
>POWER PROBLEMS!!!!!
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:10:50 +0100 (BST)
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>Reading today's Point newspaper, President Yahya Jammeh is quoted as
>having said that if he did not solve the country's ailing energy crisis
>come the next July 22ND anniversary, he will woefully fail as a president
>of The Gambia.   It's late for Jammeh to realise that he had failed as a
>president.
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>THE FAILED PRESIDENT WITH HIS
>BIG EMPTY PROMISES!!!!
>Interesting times in The Gambia.  Is Jammeh day dreaming?  I'm compelled to
>ask this question in view of his numerous promises to address the energy
>crisis without success.    Since he assumed that portfolio things are going
>from bad to worst.  It's reported that people living in the Greater Banjul
>Area can hardly have now a days  four good hours of uninterrupted
>electricity.  This resulted in many businesses closing down.  They cannot
>afford the exorbitant gas prices to maintain their generators.
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>The same Yahya Jammeh promised Gambians four years ago that NAWEC'S
>problems will be a thing of the past, since he Jammeh is presiding over the
>affairs of NAWEC. Yahya Jammeh did constantly brags that the Rural
>electrification project would be a success story.  That poverty stricken
>farmers will have access to 24 hours uninterrupted  electricity supply.
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>  His promise attracted a swift reaction from the Niamina Dankunku loin
>Lamin Waa Juwara, who vowed to join the APRC if Jammeh honoured  his
>promise of bringing electricity in his home village of  Dankunku.  Juwara
>knew fully well that Jammeh was hell bent on lying to the electorates in a
>bid secure votes in the past elections.  Now the rest is history.
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>We are witnessing more electric cuts today ever in the history of The
>Gambia.  Most government offices do not have stand by generators in the
>event of power  failure.  If they do, then they must be using the few ones
>left by the deposed PPP administration.   How many times did  we hear
>civil servants saying "today there is no light and it means easy day for
>us."  Some will exploit the situation and secretly go home to drink the
>usual tea "attaya."
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>Yes, we cannot blame these folks  to some extent.  Their action  is
>compelled byYahya's  reckless policies.   What's the point of sitting in an
>office, when there is no power to run  computers, type writers and fax
>machines?  The few ones who stay in the offices spent the day by gossipping
>their fellow associates.  How can the Gambia develop under such a
>situation?
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>Staff morale is very low today in Gambia's civil service.   For years, some
>civil servants had not been raised in terms of salary and promotion  wise.
>Salaries are still stagnant and there is no indication that they will get
>pay raise under Yahya's regime anymore.  The funds are just not there.
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>In view of these economic and political night mares hunting the civil
>service, many civil servants no longer considered  corruption as some thing
>illegal.  Some will openly take bribes to sign national documents that are
>meant for free of charge.  Failure to "give them money under the table"
>will mean that you will not get what you wanted  from them.
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>Reading the Daily Observer, recently a local corporate lawyer Pa Badou
>Conteh lamented about the bureaucracy and red tape taking place at the
>Department of State for local government and  Lands.  Mr.Conteh raised
>important points regarding the unnecessary delay on the side of local
>government authorities in getting citizens lease documents signed.
>
>Indeed, lease documents have gathered dust at this Department of State for
>a long, long time now.   This had resulted some selfish "alkalo's to create
>confusion in some localities.  How can a piece of land be sold out to two
>different individuals?  The Lands ministry which should allocate lands to
>citizens have shirk its responsibility by allowing greed, corruption and
>nepotism to overshadow their expected roles as public servants.
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>Walking into these offices, be it at the Immigration Department, Lands,
>Police License office, ministry of health and local municipalities, the
>first thing they will tell you is"Ndowkay ibay Jolang La deeh"  meaning you
>have to "pull out money" to get what you wanted.    How many times have
>these public servants complained about poor salaries to justify their
>corrupt activities?    To add insult to injury, they will tell you"Yeh Neso
>sitti damen, abay Ballou la jay" meaning in short and plain language that
>"wherever, you tide a cow that's where the cow  survived."
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>Are we today witnessing "survival of the fittest" in The Gambia?  Why
>exploiting our poor farmers, rural and urban folks under the cover of "poor
>wages or salaries"?  Let justice guide our action for the shake of the
>common good.
>
>Some public servants will tell you if the "big man Yahya is eating, who am
>i not to eat."  Two wrongs cannot be right.  If Yahya  Jammeh is corrupt
>that should not compel you to emulate him.   His days are numbered and
>anybody who aided and abetted him in his corruption schemes will certainly
>face justice.   The Gambia is ours and we should not allow some 'misguided
>and greedy" politicians to wreck it.
>
>Corruption is today endemic in the Gambia.   This had led to the total
>collapse of governance and development.  All major roads are in deplorable
>conditions.  Our health sector is no longer dispensing drugs due to lack of
>drugs.  Poverty stricken sick citizens cannot afford exorbitant drug fees.
>  Some will result to the slogan"harral ma harr Yallah" meaning let me wait
>for God's decision since they cannot afford to buy malarial drugs.  A sad
>and worrying situation.
>
>Gambians are not interested with Jammeh's unfulfilled big promises for
>better health care, energy and economic development.  Our preoccupation now
>is how to rebuild a new Gambia, free of corruption, nepotism, dictatorship
>and rule of law crisis.   There is life at the end of tunnel.  Gambians
>should not give up the struggle to free our dear country from the Jammeh
>dictatorship hell bent on undermining our God given rights and freedoms.
>Liberty must be restored sooner or later.
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