Haruinerding,

Keep being silly.  Don't thinking you are winding me up.

Mboge

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Wonderful Olfactor. I was just speaking with Senegambianews editor
> Jambang two hours ago, reason why I came on now when I saw your tantrums,
> about sharing Junior's editorial with Ellen. I didn't even know Gainako also
> carried it. Men. You see how DaarManso works in mysterious ways don't you?
> You and I are really meant to be friends and by God we will be bosom
> buddies. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. You are a remarkable
> man sometimes Olfactor. All I have to say is I love you. I mean it.
>
> Sincerely,
> Haruna.
>
>  In a message dated 4/5/2010 2:25:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>  I Lost Faith In the Gambian Justice System; A Miscarriage of Justice -
> Says Femi Peters Junior!
>
>
>  Femi Peters Senior UDP
>
> By: Femi Peters Jr (Chelsea)
>
>
>
> I would have given a lot for it to be a joke. Sadly, the matter at hand
> wasn’t. It was about as hilarious as cackling at a funeral.
>
> April 1st 2010...the day justice in The Gambia hit the buffers. Drew its
> last. Curled up and gave out. Ceased to be. Got coffined and earthed.
>
> Take your pick.
>
>
>
> We all have dates in our lives etched in our minds forever. Mine are 29thOctober and 9
> th November. I will explain why some other time. I will always remember
> where I was, what I was doing, what I was attired in when I got the call
> that my dad (the man who sired me, gave me all his names, paid my fees,
> raised me right and instilled in me the love for books) has had his freedom
> curtailed. I mean, it is not daily the average Gambian guy’s dad gets
> accommodated in Mile Two.
>
>
>
> I was reading the Metro paper on a bad weathered Thursday afternoon when my
> phone shrilled. It was my dad’s baby sister, aunty Acy to me. ‘I got news
> about your dad. Guess what?’ My heart took a leap. Ever the pessimistic
> one, I blurted out, ‘h-he got jailed?’ hoping I was wrong. ‘Yeah, he got a
> year plus D10, 000.00 fine and hard labour.’ I had the experience of being
> mad and sad at the same time and, take it from me; it is not a very pleasant
> one. It is that sinking feeling when you feel there is not much left to
> breath for.
>
>
>
> When the miserable red mist cleared, my first thought was my ten year old
> brother, Lenrie Peters.  Growing up, I was lucky to have my dad around me,
> help with my home work, help me transform from a baby to a toddler, boy to a
> man, answer my questions and simply being there. As I write this, it’s not
> with pride I say I took those things for granted. You know, daddy leaving
> home in the morning and be back in the evening is as guaranteed as
> scorching, throat-parched weather on any given Friday afternoon in Banjul.
>
>
>
> Now my baby brother will be denied that opportunity of having dad around.
> All the basic, normal things dads do for their seeds has been heartlessly
> yanked away from him. All because the APRC government thought my dad
> possessing a loudspeaker and initiating a rally is worth a year behind bars.
>
> My dad just clocked 64 in January and not in the very best of health. Do
> the math on what a year in the direst of conditions in the state prison,
> throw in unpalatable food and hard labour would do to a man his age and see
> what you come up with it. Might as well start putting away for a casket!
>
>
>
> I lost faith in Gambian justice when, ten years ago this week, students
> were gunned down and it was left at that. Forget me being caught that day
> and given a pasting my dad has never given me, which resulted in a bad knee
> I will take to my grave. My dad being banged up for exercising his right
> as a citizen leaves a bad taste in the mouth of any sane individual. I
> can’t remember knowing anyone who had to grow up with his dad in jail. To
> have to happen so close to home, to my baby brother, is a nightmare.
>
>
>
> I’ve been made to understand the order to jail my dad came from above and
> I’m not on about the flaming sky.That don’t surprise me one bit. If
> journalists can get detained, tortured, one killed, one disappeared
> completely off the face of the earth, printing press torched, political
> opponents get arrested, refuse permission to hold rallies and existing in a
> society where such is how it unfolds, jailing the man whom I’ve looked up to
> all my life is a drop in the ocean, if you look at the bigger picture.
>
>
>
> Home, since 22nd July 1994, is not what we know it for what it had been.
> It has transformed in a very un-Gambian kind of way and it is not getting
> better.
>
>
>
> Today, it is my dad down for a year for his political beliefs. Tomorrow it
> would be your mum doing a bid whose only crime was looking funny at a
> portrait of the president. This madness will not stop. A complete change at
> the helm is called for and the opportunity for that is at next year’s
> general elections should it be free, free and held in a conducive
> environment. Knowing what we all know, there is a better chance of God
> lowering a ladder and we all scurry up to heaven than that happening.
>
>
>
> I had always thought April 10th 2000 was the day I felt less good about
> being Gambian. I erred. April 1st 2010 it is and will always be.
>
>
>
> God willing, my dad will survive this and I pray his dream of a democratic
> Gambia would be in his lifetime…
>
>
>
>  PS: Thanks for all your calls and emails during these trying times. You
> know who you are. God bless and keep you all.
>
>
>
>  *Courtesy of the Gainako newspaper*
>
>
>
> *
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *
>
>
>
> *Yero,*
>
> **
>
> *I hope it is ok with you and your fellow editors at Gainako by my sharing
> this poignant write-up of a son on his father's unfair,  unconscionable
> and illegal incaceration. Yaya and his goons will not break and connot
> suffocate the will of good and truthful persons.  *
>
> **
>
> *Best,*
>
> **
>
> *Mboge*
>
>    -
>
>    **
>
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