Dear Brothers,
I do believe that we owe it to Sir Dawda some real respect. I recall
our freedom to call him names that we saw fit. I demonstrated along with my
commuting friends for school buses when i was in high school,
true some of us got bad beatings but nonetheless leave to tell the story!
What we have in the Gambia then was not a leadership problem but
a huge lack of assistance. It used to be 'semi-ok' to loot public funds now
it is a GOD given right!
The truth is all of us are responsible for our national mess and it will
take all of us to clean it up.
The sooner we stop blaming each other and takeup action to solve our
national problem the better. It should not be what somebody did wrong by
her,it should be what you did right by the country of your origin.
I have no doubt, by the use of our collective intelegence, that God
will present us any challenge that we cannot solve. While we must demand for
individual accountablity the process should never blind us to
see that we owe it to eachother to take action to protect and saveguard
eachothers lives and rights to pursue happiness and individual growth.
Sincerely kalilu camara
>From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Letter to President Abdoulaye Wade
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:22:37 GMT
>
>OUSAINOU,
>
>I hate to burst your bubble of excitement at Hamadi's apparent integrity in
>laying out what the Jawara Administration did wrong.
>I understand that you did not mean to trivialise the severity of ya! ya!'s
>tomfoolery and that you just wanted to point out the other past evils.
>
>I agree that during Sir Dawda's administration, some mistakes and severe
>errors in judgement were made. And even though he did not play an active
>role in most or any of them, his sheer passivity rendered him an aider and
>abbetter.
>
>I too was impressed with the method and construct of Hamadi's response, but
>I fail to understand how Sir Dawda taught Ya! Ya! to make the same mistakes
>or commit more severe crimes and take jurisprudence hostage to guarantee
>impunity. The value of a human being or life itself for that matter is the
>experience of past mistakes and their rectification. Be those mistakes your
>own or those of your bretheren. Are we doomed to repeat past mistakes in
>the
>Gambia? I would hate to have a bloody civil war rought by tribalism in the
>Gambia.
>
>I think Abdoulie Wade is aware of atrocities committed by Jawara because
>even though he was not in power, I have the utmost respect for his
>experiences and capacity for deductive reasoning. So how about letting him
>make his own judgements regarding the contents of the letter. C'est mieux
>critiquer que faire.
>
>If Jawara killed someone or participated in the killing of any Gambian,
>then
>he must answer to charges of murder which must be brought by the concerned
>parties. Likewise Ya! Ya! must answer to crimes of murder. Presidency is
>not
>a good enough excuse for the murder of an ordinary citizen and therefore it
>must not grant implicit immunity from prosecution.
>
>Cheers!!!
>
>
>>From: Ousainou Ngum <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Letter to President Abdoulaye Wade
>>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:16:15 -0700
>>
>>Way to go, Hamadi:
>>
>> This is the whole truth and nothing but the truth! You have just hit
>>the
>>nail in the head. I'm not downplaying the severity of the Jammeh Admin's
>>human rights abuses. The fact of the matter is what you have just rightly
>>pointed out: that Jawara was also not a human rights champion as opposed
>>to
>>"popular belief". What thrills me in your observations is simply your
>>integrity.
>>
>> It is a fact that we live in a Gambia today, where such vices are
>>rampant; this is however not reasonable enough to not acknowledge what
>>Jawara and his cronies did to The Gamabia and Gambians. There was very
>>limited freedom of speech and (or) association, as right asserted earlier.
>>The NIA has come only to replace the NSS, with the same ruthless and
>>opportunistic Director General, Kebba Ceesay, subordinated by the same
>>thugs
>>in the likes of Foday Barry and co. Just ask Dumo Sarho or anyone close to
>>him. What we are seeing in today's Gambia was bred by Jawara and his men.
>>Did we forget about Police Officers being publicly assaulted and (or)
>>harassed by "The Big Men" for simply carrying out their duties? Or have we
>>come to forget about the phrase "Ham Nga Mai Kan?" Such injustices were
>>very
>>common. We have simply become victims of Jawara's creations.
>>
>> I have always longed to see this moment, when some honest person(s)
>>will
>>just acknowledge the maladministration of The Gambia under Jammeh without
>>trying to contrast his governance and that of Jawara's. We need to do away
>>with this kind of double standards. If Jawara's deeds were not human
>>rights
>>abuses, then what do we call them? Lets start calling a spade a da**
>>spade!
>>Again, Hamadi, thanx for your boldness and sound judgement.
>>
>> Ous Ngum.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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