Yus,
I can see that Hamjatta is trying to read what Ngum had in his mind. Oh boy,
God help the Gambia. We have a lot mind readers now. May be he could help to
read the future for us too.

Lamin Ceesay.


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPEN TO US AT RIP.
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:51:27 EDT
>
>Yus,
>
>What Ngum is getting from us he duly deserves. I was never objecting to him
>highlighting whatever wrongs Chongan may have done whilst he occupied
>public office. Hey, let's be real here: Anyone who occupies public office
>and was found to have violated the codes of conduct that moderate
>individual responsibility behaviour in public life, is a fair game here.
>This, most certainly, was not what Ngum had in mind. When Ngum enumerated
>all his charges against Chongan, he concluded by saying that Chongan is a
>"worst monster" than those who ACTUALLY TORTURED him and else! This is the
>bane of my objection. Matter fact, the Brother went as far as to call
>Chongan a murderer, a thug, beast and whatever unsavoury name he can come
>up with. You expect those who know Chongan well to stay silent whilst he is
>being vilified by an uncouth nonentity who has a personal grudge to settle?
>Where's the fairness here?
>
>Let us closely examine this idea that Chongan is a "worst monster" than,
>say, Jammeh - who has either sanctioned murder or torture. The idea that
>Chongan can be on the same barbaric wavelength as animals like Jammeh, is
>not only nonsensical, but can only from the lips of someone totally
>ignorant about what is happening in the Gambia. For instance, and as Dampha
>keeps pointing out, when Chongan was a top police officer, there was a
>similar student demo as the April one. Yet, none lost his life over the
>incident. Similarly, in all his time as part of the top brass of the
>police, if Chongan were a torturer and a murderer as they are alleging, he
>had plenty of game to play with potential subversives against the State in
>those days. Dampha just highlighted the Baba Jobe case. Did anyone died in
>the hands of Chongan? Did any get crippled whilst illegally detained by
>Chongan? Why else didn't the AFPRC parade Chongan before their kangaroo
>courts if Chongan had been violating grossly h!
>uman rights of ordinary citizens
>? After all, if they had something serious on him as people are alleging,
>you can bet your last dime that Chongan would have been hauled before the
>kangaroo courts. Yet, for all the time he spent in jail as a political
>prisoner, Chongan was never taken before a court of law.
>
>Never mind the fact that when Chongan held high office, he had a democratic
>conscience. He would go out of his way by giving permits to PDOIS in
>instances where it might as well put his job on the line. You don't hear
>ignorant programmed fanatics saying this. Chongan may not buy the socialist
>arguments, but he secretly sympathised with the democratic agenda of the
>PDOIS. Be that as it may, Chongan is by no means an angel; like you and me,
>he may have or indeed did things in the past that are regrettable. Indeed,
>it may well be the case that he was guilty of some peccadilloes in his
>youth, but to suggest that he is a "worst monster" than people who have
>ACTUALLY TORTURED & MURDERED Gambian citizens is absolute nonsense. What is
>Ngum now? A frigging shrink? A frigging shrink endowed with faculties well
>equipped to figure out from minor misdemeanours in past behaviours who is
>capable of being a potential murderer or a monster? Gimme a break!
>
>As i keep saying, if the object of the current scrutiny limits itself to
>what they allege as Chongan committing and providing evidence for it, then
>Chongan like anyone else who has occupied public office before is a fair
>game. But if all they can come up with is childhood, youthful and private
>minor misdemeanours as their basis for such outrageous accusations as
>Chongan being a "worst monster" than his ACTUAL TORTUERS, then what they
>get from us is well-deserved. Let Ngum allege all he likes, this Brother
>ain't complaing! But if the charge sheet reads and suggests something that
>can't be substantiated, and off-the-wall, it becomes a different ball game.
>
>All the best,
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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