Gassama, I warned you the other day about lying about people, but I guess
you are just an incorrigible sycophant that CANNOT help himself. Ordinarily
I would ignore your irrational rattling because we are now looking forward
to a brand new Gambia with a new leadership different from anything the
country has seen before. But on second thought, I am now going to follow you
again all over G_L like I followed you when you were Kebba Jobe and help you
hang yourself. As we move on, I will remind you of certain things you have
said about people like Waa Juwara, the UDP leadership, Hamat Bah, PDOIS, the
APRC parliamentarians etc. and enjoy you as you swallow your garbage.
Now to your post. In your attempt to sound intelligent and in your
insatiable quest to be taken seriously by decent folk, you penned this
ridiculous and silly post. You contradicted yourself again. You are a
product of the Jawara era. Who were your ‘connections’ in the Mafiosi? How
did you get a scholarship to go and study abroad from a government that did
NOT give Ebrima Ceesay a scholarship? Is your boss Bakary Njie also part of
the Mafiosi you hate so much? How about Fisco Conateh, Amadou Samba, Tarik
Musa; list goes on. Njie held the same post during the Jawara era that he
has today. The other people I listed above also did relatively well under
both regimes. Would you go on record and accuse Njie of corruption? Remember
that one day you insinuated that your boss was corrupt to have given
Ousainou Darboe a retainer at Gamtel. Do you stand by that innuendo? Mind
you, Bakary Njie has every right to dismiss you for using Gamtel time to
spend hours on G_L as Kebba Jobe.
If the Jawara government was so good at fooling the Gambian people and
rendering them ignorant, how come High School drop-outs like Yaya (morons)
were the only ‘smart’ Gambians to detect that we needed changes? This is why
I said that your analysis is illogical. This Mafia you are talking about is
a figment of your imagination. I bet you that I can tell you more horror
stories about the Jawara regime (because you were enjoying during that
regime and I was NOT). But unlike you, most of us are looking forward to a
Gambia led by one of our current Opposition leaders. We will NOT go around
lying about imagined horrors.
Gambians have heard it all. We all know that this is what gets people jobs
and favors from this illegal regime. Play victim of the Jawara regime. Say
how corrupt and unfair that government was to you and bingo you are an
AFPRC/APRC stalwart. This is why I pounced on Joseph Joof when he was
appointed to show that he enjoyed from the Jawara regime more than Hawa
Sisay whose father was a cabinet minister. You are all a bunch of losers. I
don’t understand how you people can hate yourself so much to pretend that
you were the down-trodden during the former regime. We all know that you are
a bunch of liars. This is NOT about wiping out corruption and lifting up
people that were left behind. This is about jealous criminals and low-lives
stealing power to get stuff they do NOT deserve. Societal norms demand
certain things from citizens before they enjoy certain life-styles. For
instance, good education, good manners, good family, good friends. You
people could NOT measure up to society’s expectations and demands. What did
you do? High School drop-outs instead of getting better education, decided
to steal power.
Should people take you seriously when you come here and rattle about Jawara
corruption when you support a bigger thief with hefty Swiss Bank accounts?
Meanwhile the Jawara you are accusing have been taken to Commissions of
Inquiries that found NOTHING on the man. You just proved that despite all
the education the Jawara government provided for you, you are still a
‘cave-man’. You are so blatantly stupid that you do NOT even realize that
people got your number.
Like I promised you yesterday, you are going down. And going down hard. At
first I was thinking about your young children and was ignoring you when you
‘came out’ because I did not want you to lose your job and your livelihood.
Now, by the time I am done with you, we would not be talking about a job
again. Decent Gambians will ostracize you to your computer. You will be an
aimless nonentity again.
KB
>From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Of goats and politics
>Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:54:24 +0000
>
>Inspired by one of the songs of the Senegambian superstar, Yousou Ndure, I
>would like to share a few tales with you. The reason for wanting to share
>my
>opinion of this particular song with you is because of its relation to many
>an incident that sometimes goes un-noticed while very easy to see. Please
>allow me to explain a few things for people to understand how these
>seemingly unconnected things are actually an integral part of the whole
>story. Let’s start with a few definitions first.
>
>BEIYE (GOAT): small, active horned domestic animal; get one’s goat (sl) -
>irritate or annoy one; play/act the giddy goat - play the fool/behave in a
>foolish and excited way; separate the sheep from the goats – separate the
>good from the bad.
>
>Those familiar with West Africa know that goats play a very significant
>role
>in our lives. They are highly resistant to diseases and reproduce very
>quickly and very rarely give birth to single babies. We often rear them for
>their meat, milk, horns for jujus and hide for our drums.
>
>CHERREH: West African cereal meal usually made from sorghum or corn; very
>nice with goat meat.
>
>DAHINNE: A very thick cereal meal that is also very nice when prepared with
>goat’s meat. There is a Wollof saying that goes like this: “Dahinne Baku
>lenye ko yengalleh”. Meaning you steer Dahinne with a wooden spoon and not
>the conventional spoons, as they will break.
>
>In this particular song, Yousou Ndure advises that let the goats go with
>the
>goats or they may go with the “Cherreh” or the “Dahinne”. For all intents
>and purposes, we all know that the goat is better off being within other
>goats than within the “Cherreh” or “Dahinne”. This reminded me of a joke I
>was told a couple of years ago.
>
>THE JOKE
>A wealthy domineering father, his hardworking wife, his sons of about ten
>and three and their mate lived in a big house. The dad always wanted to
>talk
>about politics to the ten year old kid who would rather not have anything
>to
>do with politics. However, out of respect and fear, he tried to get
>interested in his dad’s drivel about politics. He decided to ask his dad,
>while having dinner one day, what politics was all about. His dad, who was
>very excited by his kid’s interest in politics, explained politics thus:
>
>You see son, I have all the money and everything in this house belongs to
>me. So I am “the capitalist”. Your mother here runs the house and she is
>therefore “the government”. You see the mate there doing all the dirty work
>there? She is “the masses”. And we are all doing this for you, “the people”
>and your brother, “the future”. The boy was very confused but pretended to
>understand. Unfortunately that night, his younger brother did it in bed and
>the whole room was smelly. He went to inform the mum but found her in such
>a
>deep sleep that he could not wake her up and his father was not around. He
>decided to go wake the mate. However, the mate’s door was locked and she
>did
>not answer his knocking even though there were some noises coming from
>within. He decided to peep through the keyhole to see what was the matter.
>To his surprise, he saw his dad and the mate doing it with such passion and
>vigor that they did not even hear him knocking the door. Discouraged, he
>went back to the smelly room and tried as best as he could to clean up his
>younger brother and then went to sleep. The next day he was the last to get
>to the breakfast table were everyone else was already having their
>breakfast. After saying good morning to them, he told his dad that he
>really
>understood politics now. His father was naturally very excited and asked
>him
>to explain what he understood about politics. He told his dad that politics
>is when “the capitalists” SCREW “the masses”, “the government” IGNORES “the
>people” and “the future” is FULL OF SHIT.
>
>Now to those who are yet to get my drift, I will like to share my views of
>Gambian politics and our concept of it. For over thirty years we had a
>government that made absolutely no attempt to free its people from
>ignorance
>but instead built an oligarchy of very corrupt people who were very
>insensitive to the plight of the ordinary people. For more than three
>decades we had a government that did everything that the colonialists did
>to
>subdue and control our people. For more than three decades we had one of
>the
>most corrupt governments that subdued its citizens like slaves, mystified
>the role of our leadership and mesmerized the whole population. They used
>us
>to weep up nationalist sentiments and hypnotized us into believing that
>anything other than the status quo was detrimental to the state and our
>people. We followed them wherever they went and did everything they wanted
>us to do. We were just like zombies. This government consolidated
>everything
>bad that the colonialists did. They created and nurtured various clans that
>co-existed in “peace and harmony” and enjoyed all sorts of rights (both
>human and animal rights). We had a clan that ruled, a clan that produced
>doctors and high ranking officials, a clan that produced lawyers, a clan
>that tilled the soil, a clan that sang praises and the rest who comprised
>the clan of the hopeless.
>
>The clan that tilled the soil did so honestly and with dedication. Some of
>them managed to send some of their kids to school, some of whom became low
>paid policemen, teachers, dispensers, health workers, agricultural workers
>etc., etc. They also produced some very daring individuals who, while they
>could not continue their education due to poverty and lack of opportunity,
>had the brains to understand that something was seriously wrong somewhere.
>Some of these instead of researching how to improve our subsistence farming
>methods or some other worthwhile things figured out how to join what has
>become an oligarchy of privileged people. These soon perfected the art of
>stealing massive sums of money from our poor folks. Some of them, when
>found
>out were promoted or transferred to more secure positions were they can
>plunder our meager resources without the rest of society knowing about it.
>This was done in return for them not revealing to the rest of the destitute
>Gambians how they became rich over night and gained the respect of the
>Mafiosi. This new breed of thieves ganged up together and plundered all the
>aid that came into this country. While their kids enjoyed the best
>education
>available here and abroad, led the most flamboyant of lifestyles, the rest
>of society looked on with utter disbelieve. While we had the honest griots
>telling the stories of our gallant past, the dishonest ones sang the
>praises
>of the Mafiosi. For this, this latter group was rewarded with lots and lots
>of money and other privileges. This was the order of the day until one
>fateful July day a group of young army officers rudely invited themselves
>to
>the party sending most on their way to exile.
>
>To be continued.
>
>Have a good day, Gassa.
>
>
>
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