People,

I just wanted to put in my two bututs.What Ous Ngum said about Chongan's past
is a good point. We must commend people for having the decency to come
forward with their stories that will help us put the present criminals
occupying the seat of government in our country, but never for one minute
must we forget those who also abused power and metted out brutality to our
people in the past.

If we do, history will keep repeating itself in our country. The Jawara gov't
gave us 30 years of corruption and incompetence, only to be succeded by a
murderous gang. We cannot afford to forget this even if the present brutality
has us thinking that it was at least a little bit better in the past.

Finally, I just want to ask why it is that we Gambians seem to wear our egos
on our shoulder. We cannot afford to have fragile egos that prevent us from
addressing the issues intelligently and sticking to the facts without making
it personal. Otherwise, we will never accomplish anything because we will
spend all our time arguing and nursing fragile egos.

Jabou Joh

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