--- This is indeed an informative piece. Keep it
coming!
> Mori
>
> > Gambia L,
> >
> > The e-mail below is from one ofmy sources in the
> Gambia.
> >
> > Ebrima Ceesay
> >
> >
>
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> >
> >
> > Hello Ebrima
> >
> > I hope both you are fine. We are trying to keep
> mind, body and soul
> together
> > at the expense of our collective sanity as a
> Nation. But we the people
> shall
> > prevail. The Gambian situation is no longer
> tenable and sooner rather than
> > later something has to give.
> >
> > The Gambia is effectively a dysfunctional state.
> The civil service is
> > crippled. The business environment polluted with
> government controls
> through
> > administrative fiat contrary to the free market
> philosophy that we all
> > espouse.
> >
> > The government has now and finally accepted (thank
> God) its
> ineptitude.(One
> > government Secretary of State saying to another
> "you
> > must realise, we don't know how Government
> functions).
> >
> > This government is incapable of handling the
> myriad of problems it brought
> > upon itself through GREED. Even the die-hard
> supporters are now convinced
> > that Yahya Jammeh and his cohorts have failed
> them, have lied to them,
> have
> > deceived them, have murdered them, have raped them
> and have rendered them
> > unemployed through greed-driven policies .
> >
> > They have now gone as low as siphoning off
> duty-free fuel through a scheme
> > involving GPTC, Castle Oil (local oil company
> owned by Tufik Massry) under
> > the guise of fuelling the personal plane that
> belongs to Yahya.
> >
> > The Gambia has been hijacked by a group of bandits
> and ALL Gambians are
> now
> > hostages, but not for long. Lamin Kaba Bajo who
> was partly responsible for
> > the dismissal of so many civil servants and helped
> create the lawlessness
> of
> > Brikama town is under close surveillance by the
> NIA.
> >
> > Jammeh suspects that LaminBajo will flee the
> country which would spell
> > disaster for a regime he knows so much about and
> on the verge of
> > total disintegration.
> >
> > On the political front, the Opposition continues
> to attract impressive
> > crowds during their recent tours. In fact, the UDP
> is currently touring
> the
> > provinces with huge crowds at each stop. The NRP
> leader also registered a
> > successful campaigne tour as was reported in the
> Independent of last week.
> > PDOIS also earlier on made some rural tours.
> > As for the APRC, the continuous and pathetic
> showing in the campaign
> > circuit is embarrassing to say the least. In
> Sukuta, this week their rally
> > attracted less than 70 people.
> >
> > In SerreKunda, it was repeat performance of the
> week before when APRC
> > officials (Saja and Yankuba) tried to explain the
> reason for the low turn
> > out; this week the figure was lower (some
> estimates put the "crowd" at 25
> > people) which forced them to move from the street
> into
> > a compound and quickly converted the rally into a
> sensitisation meeting of
> > "Yaicompins" as alluded to by Saja Taal after
> their disasterous Tallinding
> > rally the week before.
> >
> > In their attempt to divert the attention of the
> people from their recent
> > failures, Fatoumatta Jahumpa and the Jammeh
> cronies are proceeding with
> > their Million Mom March set for tomorrow.
> >
> > Despite the 10 (ten) buses they intend to use to
> ferry in the would be
> > Moms-for-hire, I still predict that it will be a
> dismal failure. The
> > organisers are an insensitive bunch.
> >
> > How can you celebrate the birthday of Jammeh at a
> time when Gambians want
> to
> > know who killed our defenceless children on the
> 10th and 11th of April.
> The
> > celebrations, marches and the like are efforts to
> rehabilitate Jammeh's
> > battered image. What they fail to accept is that
> the guy's image is beyond
> > repair.
> >
> > Have you seen Sam Sarr's (not Sam Sarr of PDOIS)
> interview on the Crude
> Oil
> > Deal? The UDP said they will reply appropriately
> and shortly. What of
> Tamsir
> > Jallow's view on the role of the IEC in
> > selecting dates for Local Council elections?
> >
> > He's got his reply from the horse's mouth. No one
> is going to take these
> > nonesense lying down. Those days are over..gone.
> You want to tell me that
> > these are serious people? Yahya and APRC, we say "
> game's
> > up...finished...kaput"
> >
> > I am still in the office doing some work for the
> useles Cabinet
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
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> >
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