Congratulations Seyfo Moro Jawla!!"Miniminin tafali to nya lay ka laabang"!!

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Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:16 AM
Subject: Sami Election Results are in!


> Moro Jawla has decisively won the chieftaincy election of Sami . He
defeated
> the Aprc candidate who for more than two years illegally occupied the
> position for which the people of Sami never elected him to. Like 21 other
> chiefs, Yahya Jammeh imposed him on the people and it was only after
> litigation initiated by Lawyer Darboe and a supreme court order that our
> people have exercised their constitutional right to choose their
> representatives. Even as they were hamstrung by an I.E.C who seems
> preoccupied with making up draconian and undemocratic rules for this
> particular contest, the people of Sami nonetheless sent a clear message to
> this thug of a president and his cronies. The commissioner at Georgetown
has
> spent countless nites with a bunch of July 22 youth groups attempting to
try
> last ditch intimidation efforts in villages throughout the district. They
> delivered explicit threats to folks they thought they could scare into
> submission. It didn't work. This was all done in the dead of nit typical
of
> these vile and insidious bunch. First they try to disenfranchise the
Gambain
> people and after that fails they attempt to bully them. The good people of
> Sami who I proudly call my own stood up to them and handed Yahya and his
> goons their tails. Something tells me it is an important lesson for the
rest
> of the nation and the people would once and for all rid themselves of this
> regime and all that it representatives. I urge list members and all
Gambians
> to join me in extending a heart felt congratulation to Seyfo Morro Jawla,
the
> elected chief of Sami. I pray that God give him the strength and integrity
to
> discharge his duties to all the people of his district and usher in fresh
> breath justice and equal protection under the law.
>
> Karamba
>
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