Forcing civil servants to buy APRC membership cards is yet another
manifestation of brutally and ineptitude.  What next? It is very clear that
the moron Yahya and those who twirl with him have lost the rhythm.  They
have long realized that the coming elections have been morally won by the
ordinary denizens of the Gambia.  The APRC know that in a fair playing
ground they have nothing to offer to the Gambian populace.  The only means
of survival for them is to intimidate Gambians.  But history had shown many
a time that tyranny will inevitably be chased out by the oppressed.  The
most recent demise of a tyrant is Milosovic.  People power prevailed in the
end.

If one goes by the bilious record of Jammeh and his ilk, one will be
confronted with  evidence of murder(April Massarce of school children),
abduction(Dumo SAho and CO.)and arson(attack on Radio One FM).  Since the
advent of the Jammeh Mess, Gambians have been visited with nothing but
brutally at a scale unknown to us.


  However, as it is obvious the ordinary people will be the final victor.
Patriotic Gambians here on the L and somewhere else are keeping the pressure
on.  No let up brothers and sisters. Keep the fire burning.

We shall hound you to the end.




>From: Fatou Nyang <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: CIVIL SERVANTS FORCED TO BUY APRC MEMBERSHIP CARDS/INDEPENDEN
>             T
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:56:28 -0400
>
>What the hell is going on in our motherland?What is next now?Maybe they
>will
>start
>dragging people out of their homes to go and vote.I keep getting sick to my
>stomach and have this gut feeling as to who will notice all this.Again the
>west seems to ignore
>the happenings as this was how, Sierra Leone,Liberia to name a few started
>off with.
>May Allah protect each and every Gambian back home as this coming election
>will be a
>very ugly one.
>Fatou Mbasu Nyang
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pasamba Jow [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 8:30 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: CIVIL SERVANTS FORCED TO BUY APRC MEMBERSHIP CARDS/INDEPENDENT
>
>
>                   Civil servants 'forced' to buy APRC
>                             membership cards
>
>                  Highly placed individuals in the government have strongly
>criticised
>                  the 'forcible' issuing of APRC membership cards to civil
>servants.
>                  The sources disclosed to The Independent that government
>                  departments have been 'invaded' with APRC stalwarts
>'forcing' civil
>                  servants to buy the party's membership card.
>
>                  According to the sources the issuing of the cards began
>prior to the
>                  announcement made by the party that they are selling
>their
>                  membership cards, which costs D10. 'We all must buy these
>cards
>                  otherwise we may loose our positions,' the sources who
>are
>                  themselves civil servants lamented. They believed that it
>was wrong
>                  for the APRC party to 'exploit' civil servants to fund
>their activities,
>                  which is political.
>
>                  They also asserted it was unnecessary and wrong to force
>them to
>                  join the APRC bandwagon when some of them might not even
>be
>                  interested in politics. 'We would not hesitate to condemn
>these
>                  APRC slaves who ant to exploit us as a source of revenue'
>one of
>                  them charged. One source who is a senior civil servant at
>the North
>                  Bank Division claimed that 5,000 APRC membership cards
>were
>sent
>                  to the Commissioner's office for distribution to civil
>servants there.
>                  According to him up to D50, 000 might be realised from
>the
>'forcible
>                  sale'.
>
>                  He cited that since they are appointed to serve any
>government civil
>                  servants should not be involved in politics nor was it
>right to be
>                  forced to join a party. One of them who works at the
>Quandrangle
>                  also claimed that civil servants have been willing to
>volunteer
>                  information to the media but because they have been
>instructed to
>                  'shun' the press they had preferred to stay silent if 'we
>wanted to
>                  keep our jobs'.
>
>                  'Although it is not our will not to talk, it is the
>bureaucratic system of
>                  the government that does not allow us to talk and the
>forcible
>                  issuing of these cards will make things worse' one of
>them
>further
>                  opined. 'It is impossible for all civil servants to
>support
>the ruling
>                  party. We are just there to work for our people but it is
>even not
>                  possible for us all to support the APRC government,'
>another civil
>                  servant pointed out.
>
>                  He noted that when he first heard about the 'forcible'
>issuing of
>                  APRC membership cards to civil servants, he as a civil
>servant felt
>                  insulted. 'One of my friends who is an APRC member told
>me
>that,
>                  buying the card doesn't mean I will vote for them. But he
>told me
>                  plainly that, acquiring the card is for the purpose of
>retaining my
>                  job,' he said. However all efforts to elicit a response
>from the head of
>                  the civil service proved unsuccessful.
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