Hi FATOU,
These questions are very interesting and of vital importance. I hope the
party will answer them with precision and unambuiguity.
As someone who still holds some sympathy for PDOIS, i must say on the
issue pertaining to the London Meeting of 28/02/01, i am still very much
concerned by the party's reaction to the meeting. I am saying this hoping
that i will not be percieved as attacking anyone. I am humbly stating what
i believe is my understanding of what i read on the FOROYAA concerning the
said meeting. I STAND TO BE CORRECTED. I was at the meeting and never felt
at any time that this was just a briefing to a British MP, expecting him to
salvage the political quagmire obtaining in the Gambia at present. Most of
the Gambian Diaspora present at that meeting were not refugees. Most of us
legitimately have lived in the U.K prior to Jammeh's usurpation of power in
1994. Many of the people i met at the meeting were simply concerned with
the state of affairs in the Gambia. What i observed among Gambians is an
ardent desire for peace and normality to visit Gambia once again. Jammeh
does not in any way listen to anyone in the Gambia. He is an imbecile and a
moron who is consumed by his own self-importance. I am not a supporter of
Jawara but i respect him more than i ever will be with Jammeh. What Jammeh
needs is a concerted effort from all concern Gambians to direct their
fusilade and missiles towards him. I think this includes all Gambians
whether it is Jawara or anyone else.
I must state categorically that i am a member of the MRDG-UK and believe
that the aims and objectives of the movement are very much akin to what made
me attracted to PDOIS. I support the movement 100%.
Since my place of residence is not in the Gambia, the little i can do is
support the efforts of my country folk in the most practical manner i deem
necessary. If ever i am financially capable of helping any political
movement, i will do it transparently and will not expect any favours in
return.
I must also say that the chair of the movement is a very conscentious
person who is relentlessly fighting for justice and peace to return to
Gambia. I have known him for some years now and all i held for him is
respect.
I am very much concern also about the continuous references made by
bilious characters like Joseph Joof to PDOIS as the ideal opposition. This
in my humble opinion is not going down well with many sympathizers of the
party. I think the party should come completely clear and demonstrate to
this perverse lot (Jammeh and his cohorts) that PDOIS abhours the state of
affairs in the Gambia. I know you are doing it but the message should be
more vehement.
Jammeh's hands are dripping with the blood of the school children massacred
last April and all that we demand is for him to take responsibility. I hold
Jammeh totally responsible. During the first student demonstrations which
saw the principal of Muslim High School(one Mr Njie) lost his job, the
KILLER OF KANILAI promised Gambian parents that the next time such kind of
demonstrations happens dead bodies will greet them. He fulfilled such a
promise last April. It is then very clear that Yahya is responsible and
will one day face us and account for such a heinous crime.
I wish all the democratic forces fighting for peace and decency all the
best.
Please L-ers, PDOIS and MRDG-UK, these are my humble observations and i am
sharing it with you in respect and good faith.
God Bless the Gambia and Gambians.
Regards,
Mboge
>From: Ceesay Fatou <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Is Pdios an opposition to the oppositions,or only reasonable one?
>Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:56:18 -0000
>
>Halifa Sallah and his Pdios´s position towards the justified and successful
>London Briefing session of the 28th February 2001 is prompting me to raise
>some
>questions to Mr..Sallah again. I have difficulties to understand the
>position or
>the relationship between Mr..Sallah / pdios and the Gambian opposition in
>one
>hand, and with jammeh/aprc in the other. Therefore, I will re-state some of
>my
>earlier questions plus the new ones.
>Even though, one disagreed to the positions of some members of the disarray
>or
>dead "moja -g", who shamelessly but are honest to exposed their true collar
>openly by participating in the crimes jammeh & co are committing against
>the
>peace loving people of the Gambia. However I am afraid the same cannot be
>said
>of pdios, therefore am here raising the following questions to pdios´s Mr.
>Halifa
>Sallah
>1. Why should you often -if not always make parallelism or comparison
>between
>Jawara/ppp and Jammeh/aprc whenever critics are raised against Jammeh?
>2. Do you think that Jawara/PPP's economic & human right crimes are on the
>same
>level with that of Jammeh/aprc?
>3. For fairness sake, do you think that Jawara/PPP government is capable of
>gun
>down unarmed students? Have you witnessed the student/youth demonstrations
>in
>1968,69 and 70?
>4. If one reduce the London meeting to mere briefing the British MPs
>because
>of
>the Gambian refugees in UK, that is belittling the efforts and purposes,
>isn´t?Don´t you think that your reactions to London meeting is out of
>pettiness or the fantasy that whatever is not Halifa/Pdios is
>unprogressive,bankrupt and unintelligent?
>Would it be fair if one is also saying that pdios´s present at labour party
>congress was a matter of looking for economic help? Or was Halifa Sallah
>trying
>to expose himself to an international arena by traveling to Europe prior to
>1996 elections because he have the hope then that he and his party will
>file
>the
>power vacuum after the elections?
>5. Is it fair to claim that pdios/Halifa is more hostile to Jawara´s regime
>than
>to Jammeh´s because (a) Halifa is more expose (positively) both national
>and
>international in Jammeh´s era. (b)That Halifa is encouraged to be a
>statesman
>(status quo) in jammeh´s era. (c)Halifa is in political solidarity with
>Jammeh
>but ideological indifference.It seems that you have difficulties with the
>oppositions.Are you an opposition to the oppositions ,or is it that the
>other oppositions ( with the exception of Pdios) aren't reasonable?
>6. Halifa Sallah ,can you honestly make reflections of the following
>points.(a)Your political role during the transition.(b) Halifa been the
>only
>unstop politician of the first republic during the transition.(c) Your
>stand
>or
>explanation on the death of Koro Ceesay,Sadibou Hydra,Basirou Barrow &
>co.(d)
>Gunning down unarmed students, "and let the law take its course with
>toothless
>or fake commission of inquiry"
>7. Is it fair to claim that "comrade "Halifa Sallah have a complex because
>he
>believes that he alone knows what is best for the Gambia
>8. Hence pdios is the oldest political party in the Gambia but far from the
>biggest, don't you think that you need to make a reflection why the
>quantity
>is
>not matching with the age?
>9. Isn't that Jammeh & co are destroying our peace loving country? If yes
>is
>the answer
>to this question ,isn't better for the opposition to have some points of
>agreement or co-operation so to unseat Jammeh? And if so is the case, are
>you
>honestly believing that your attitude is helping the process of such a
>co-operation or agreements.
>10. Mr. Sallah, you have been mentioning the resources contributions of
>Gambians
>in diaspora to their respective party of choice, do you think it will be
>fair if
>one is saying that you and your party is only interested in material /
>economic
>resources from the Gambians living in abroad? Would that not tantamount to
>"milking " or trying to exploit your fellow country folk- most of whom are
>struggling very hard so that
>the means can meet the needs?
>11. It is often said that pdios is a party of difference (like Jammeh
>claimed to
>be a solider of different ?), and therefore will not be corrupted, bribe or
>buy
>votes in whatsoever-fine. What would one call it, if one MP put certain
>percent
>of his salary to a fund for a development of his /her constituency likes in
>the
>case of Wuli, which you are all proud of? Is that not bribing or corrupting
>the
>voters of Wuli to vote for Hon Sidia Jatta. Why can't you give that sum to
>Foni
>Bintang area for the development of that area if the reasoning is not to
>bribe/corrupt the voters to vote for Hon Sidia Jatta?
>12. Mr.Sallah, why do you think that your party comrade won the elections
>in
>Wuli but you lost to a total newcomer? Is it because of your party policy,
>program or personalities involved in both constituency-Wuli and Serre Kunda
>respectively? What do you think the results of the election will be if you
>Halifa happen to contest in Wuli while Sidia contest in Serre Kunda? Do you
>think you will win if you contest in Serre Kunda again independent of OJ or
>not?Did it ever come across your mind that you will be more effective as an
>educationist than a party politician?
>Hence one seek to look for the affairs of our be love country,we as an
>individuals or group have a legitimate right to raise our doubts and
>questions,and on the bases of that i raised the above questions in good
>faith.
>Thank you sir
> FC
>
>
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